By Mark | November 25, 2020
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged AT&T, Charles Maynard, Dan Richardson, family history, Kentucky, Linette, Matt Krizowsky, Monticello, New Jersey, OCD, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Sarah Palin, tea party, Thanksgiving, Tom DeLay, Vietnam, Ward Tomich, Ypsilanti |
By Mark | November 27, 2019
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged Charles Maynard, Clementine, Dan Richardson, family history, friends, Kentucky, Linette Lao, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, Monticello, OCD, Sarah Palin, tea party, Thanksgiving, Tom DeLay, turkey-mosquito hybrid, Vietnam War, War on Thanksgiving, Ward Tomich, Ypsilanti |
By Mark | October 2, 2019
On Saturday, October 2, 1999, Linette and I were married. Here, to mark the occasion, is a little something I wrote a while back, slightly updated to reflect that yet another year has passed. Twenty years ago today, after seven years of living with one another in sin, I married my friend and collaborator Linette […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged American Studies, anniversary, Arlo, Chevy Blazer, Clementine, Dan Richardson, Doug Coombe, Leisa Thompson, Linette Lao, luck, Mama June, marriage, Matt Krizowsky, milestones, Northville, Plymouth, thankful, things I'm thankful for, weddings |
By Mark | November 25, 2016
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
By Mark | October 5, 2016
Seventeen years ago this week, after seven years of living with one another in sin, I married my friend and collaborator Linette Lao. Sadly, as it took place in an age before smartphones, little evidence of this wondrous and magical event exists today. We are fortunate, however, in that we do have this one image, […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Photographs, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anniversary, Arlo, Box Bar, Clementine, Crimewave USA, Doug Coombe, Honey Boo Boo, Leisa Thompson, Linette, Linette Lao, Mama June, Matt Krizowsky, Mill Race, Northville, Plymouth, pumping gas |