Tag Archives: Arlo

On potty training and pooping rainbows

By Mark | January 6, 2015

Over the holiday break, I spent a considerable amount of time sequestered in my room, sorting through my towering piles of paper, trying to bring some semblance of order to my increasingly chaotic life. And, in the process, I came across these two pieces of documentation relating to Arlo’s potty training, which, thankfully, is now […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Clementine, events transpiring in bathrooms, poop, potty training, rainbows, rainbows of poop, Totally Quotable Arlo | 10 Comments

Yes, it looks kind of like me, but I did not rob a bank today

By Mark | January 2, 2015

At 4:00 today, a man apparently robbed the Ann Arbor TCF bank branch at 1900 Pauline. As these kinds of things seem to happen all the time these days, I probably wouldn’t have even taken notice under normal circumstances. In this case, though, I received an email from a reader warning me that I might […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Mark's Life, Photographs | Also tagged bank robbery, banks, masks, people who look kind of like Mark, TCF, wanted posters | 10 Comments

The History of Wiard’s: From Plows and Cider to Soda and Scare-tainment… an American story

By Mark | October 19, 2014

As a rule, I try not to talk about local businesses unless I have something good to say about them, which is why, over the 12 years or so that I’ve been posting here, I’ve never mentioned the “agri-entertainment complex” that is Wiard’s. Call me old fashioned, but I like my cider mills without paintball, […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged agri-entertainment, apple cannons, apples, Batavia, book ideas, cider mills, Clementine, dollar store Disney, donuts, Everett Wiard, furries, George Wiard, haunted houses, hayrides, human dalmatians, Lyman Wiard, mineral water, New York, Night Terrors, orchards, paintball, panic attacks, scare-tainment, soda, Thomas Wiard, Wiard, Wiard Plow Company, Wiard's, Willow Run, Willow Run Bomber Plant, Ypsilanti Bottling Works, Ypsilanti's Mineral Water Sanitariums | 11 Comments

Today was a terrible day, but I’m OK with that

By Mark | September 23, 2014

It’s after 1:00 AM and I’ve been asked to relocate from my bed to the couch. My terrifyingly loud coughing, it would appear, has finally crossed a line. I should have had the sense to extract myself. When it gets to the point that I need to get out of bed, stand up, and brace […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged car problems, colds, coughing, coughing up blood, flu, Freeda, Honda Civic Hybrid, Linette, luck, things I'm thankful for | 5 Comments

The family photo that could get me into Congress

By Mark | August 18, 2014

This is the best picture we’ve ever taken as a family. Our friend Leisa Thompson took it about a year ago. For reasons that still aren’t quite clear to me, we were hanging out inside a giant piece of sculpture at the time. We had a print of it made, and it’s hanging upstairs, about […]