Always in mind, if rarely in tuneJuly 1, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressThe band broke up.We hit the final chord. We heard sweet applause. And then, after 20 years together, we walked ...Read More
My ‘Fifty Shades’ of newfound embarrassmentJune 24, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressIt's official.I've become a prude.I thought this happened only in adolescence. I thought once you got past those ...Read More
Certainly, sir … what did you say again?June 21, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressThe flight attendant smiles. "Something to drink?" "Water, please," I say. She asks the next guy over, then turns ...Read More
Fake pot can have real consequencesJune 3, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressIt sounds relatively harmless. Synthetic marijuana. Like pot for people who don't want to get arrested.For a ...Read More
Save the questions for humans, not your phoneMay 29, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressI'm not talking.Not to a phone.It may be all the rage for celebrities in iPhone commercials to have pithy ...Read More
Winans’ attack: We’re all at riskMay 20, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressHe is a famous gospel singer, a TV star, a pastor who gave the stirring eulogy at Whitney Houston's funeral.That ...Read More
Ernie, two years gone, is still hereApril 29, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressThere's a scene in the play "Ernie" in which the actor playing Ernie Harwell re-enacts the way he broadcast ...Read More
I’d like to teach to the world to … gleeApril 15, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressSometimes, when you live in Michigan, people from out of state ask you, "Why?"This is a story that answers that ...Read More