Tag: Michigan

• December 14, 2011

  Don we now our gay apparel

  A friend of mine posted this on Facebook last night: The Moultrie Middle School choir changed “don we now our gay apparel” to “bright apparel.” Is the word gay so evil that we have to remove it altogether? A flurry of comments and dialogue ensued, including much outrage and a fair share of humor, including: […]
• January 14, 2011

  A Funeral Story

  My brother and I spent the better part of a day traveling to and from our Uncle Bob’s funeral on Monday. We began in the pre-dawn winter darkness of Wooster, Ohio, traveled to St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Livonia, Michigan and found our way back to Wooster as the pale sun fell into its pink […]
• January 7, 2011

  Uncle Bob

      My Uncle Bob passed away yesterday after a long battle with cancer. Dear Uncle Bob, Thank you for always being an example to me of a life well lived. My memories of you and Aunt Georgia are filled with love…of warm, homemade cookies…long swims in your pool until my fingers and toes were […]