By Mark | October 2, 2018
On Saturday, October 2, 1999, Linette and I were married. Here, to mark the occasion, is a little something I wrote a while back, and shared every few years since, slightly updated to reflect that yet another year has passed. Nineteen years ago today, after seven years of living with one another in sin, I […]
My daughter just happened to be at the Supreme Court this afternoon, with a group of about 60 girls from Detroit and Ypsilanti, when word came out that Justice Anthony Kennedy, after serving 30 years on the high court, would be retiring, giving Donald Trump yet one more opportunity to remake the Judicial branch in […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, abortion rights, Anthony Kennedy, child detention, child separation, conspiracy theory, Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, family separation, Hillary Clinton, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Jeanine Pirro, Jill Stein, John Roberts, Justin Kennedy, Koch brothers, legal precedent, Lisa Murkowski, Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, money laundering, Neil Gorsuch, preexisting conditions, Roe v. Wade, Russia, Russiagate, Supreme Court, Susan Collins |
Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, the last of my grandparents, passed away yesterday evening at the age of 93 in Lexington, Kentucky, not terribly far from where I was was born 50 years ago, and where she lived for most of her adult life. She was one of my favorite people in the entire world, and […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Beardstown, Bob Avery, cancer, Death, Dorothy Avery, family history, family photo, friends who have passed, Galesburg, grandparents, Great Depression, hospice, Illinois, John Lambie, matriarch, Mimi Dorothy, Mothers' Day, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Robert Avery, Shane Land, Sweden, telegrams, World War II |
In an attempt to further radicalize my 13 year old daughter, I whisked her away on a last-minute road trip to D.C. Friday afternoon so that we could attend the big March for Our Lives demonstration. Having spent much of the past few days behind the wheel, I’m pretty exhausted at the moment, but I […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged "We could have bought a lot of guillotines for $700 billion", #MarchForOurLivesDC, Abraham Lincoln, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Barbara Kruger, Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Chicago, country ham, crying, Dorothy Avery, Elie Wiesel, Florida, guillotines, Guillotines Not Guns, gun control, gun laws, gun violence, Hirshhorn, holocaust, Lincoln Memorial, MAGA, Make America Great Again, March for our Lives, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Mark Bradford, Martha Mitchell, Morgantown, NRA, parenting, parenting advice, Parkland, Pickett's Charge, road trips, Ron Mueck, tears, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, Watergate, West Virginia |
By Mark | February 11, 2018
I’ve now been with Linette for exactly half my life. Today marks not only the 50th anniversary of my birth, but the 25th anniversary of our first date. Saying that I shouldn’t just be sitting around the house on my 25th birthday, Linette drove out to Ann Arbor, picked me up, and took me for […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 25, AARP, Abbott and Costello, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, Arlo, birthdays, bowling, bowling ball, bowling league, Citizen Kane, depression, Dinner at Eight, Dorothy Avery, it sucks getting old, John Farres, Ken Boyd, knitting, Mark's birthday, monsters, OCD, Orson Welles, Piss Alley Rollers, Super Sweet Social Bowling League, Tracy Wells, Webber's, Wixom, Zsa Zsa Gabor |
