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I attended Highland Park Community College in the mid 1960's A community college is a type of public higher education institution that typically offer two-year programs leading to an associate degree, certificates, or diplomas. A student may attend a community college with the goal of transferring to a four-year institution transfer credits and continue their education towards a bachelor's degree. Some students choose to enter the work force after completing the two year pro

The Tigers swept the Chicago White Sox winning three games in a row over the weekend. Friday's score was Detroit 4 Chicago 3. Saturday the Tigers won 4 to 1. Sunday was a thriller with the Tiger's coming from behind and beating the White Sox 5 to 4 in ten innings. The Tiger's bats came alive with 9 hits on Sunday. The Detroit team's record is now 33 wins and 44 losses. Winning per centage is 429. They are now 7 1/2 games behind the first place Cleveland Guardians in the Ameri

Those of you who been readers of my essays know we have a dog. His name is Jake. Some of this essay may be familiar to you but I am writing about Jake again because tomorrow June 17 will be Jake's thirteenth birthday. Jake will be 13 which is the equivalent of 91 in human years. Any way you look at it, Jake is not young anymore. Jake still does seem young. When many people meet him, they think he is a puppy. Jake is a Havanese. Havanese are pretty small dogs. Jake weighs ab

The Detroit Tigers finished the week yesterday Sunday June 7, 2026 with a win over the Seattle Mariners 5 to 4. The game was won in the ninth inning on a hit by star rookie Kevin McGonigle. The Tigers now have a record of 27 wins against 39 losses. They are 9 1/2 games out of first place in the Central division and have a 409 winning per centage. They still have a lot of work to do to get back in the race but it was very good week and a lot of time left in the regular season

Monday morning June 1,2026. Watched three Tiger games over the weekend. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The Tigers lost all three games. They lost Friday by a score of 4 to 3. Saturday's game was lost 7 to 1 and Sunday's game was lost 4 to 3 in ten innings. You can quickly see the Tigers are not scoring many runs. I'm sure you are very aware the Detroit team is not having a good season. The season is now two months old. The Tiger's have played sixty games. They still have 102

Sunday May 16,1971 was a very warm and sunny day. Why do I remember what the weather was like on that specific day? It was the day we were married. We got married in the afternoon at a popular hotel in downtown Detroit. This Saturday May 16,2026 will be fifty-five years since that very warm Sunday afternoon. Being married fifty-five years is a pretty big milestone. A lot of people do not reach that milestone for a number of reasons. First, you have to be lucky and live long

You Tube is an American -Video-Sharing platform. It is currently owned by Google. It is the second most visited website in the world. You Tube reaches almost three billion monthly active viewers. Collectively they watch more than one billion hours of video every day. More than five hundred hours of video are uploaded too the platform every minute. There are approximately a billion videos in total. This number is constantly growing. I am a retired senior citizen. I started wat

I have always been a movie fan. Usually saw a couple of movies a month if not more. Going to a movie was a night out. A way to escape for a couple of hours. Spend some time with friends. Take a date. Take your wife out and leave the kids with a sitter. The year 2020 brought the Covid Virus. People had to stay home. Movie theatres like many other business's had too temporarily close. When the epidemic ended not all theatres were able to reopen. People did not rush back to tho

0n July 20,1969 the first astronauts landed on the moon. It was a great achievement! In October of 1968 another great event took place. The Detroit Tigers won the World Series The Tigers had not won the world series since 1945. Twenty-three long years. They had not won in my lifetime. Twenty-Three years seemed like a very long time. It does not seem so long today when I realize it has been forty-two years since they have last won the series in 1984. The team had a record in 1

The first moon landing took place on Sunday July 20,1969. The three astronauts on that historic flight were Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins. Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk on the moon. The landing was seen all over the world on television. Most of those television sets were black and white with screens that were a lot smaller than the ones many people have today. The first words spoken on the moon by Neil Armstrong were "that's one small step for man

We were driving east on Maple Road this past Thursday March 12,2026. It was around noon. We were heading towards Trader Joes's at Telegraph and Maple. Somewhere between Halstead and Drake Roads we heard sirens behind us. We pulled to the side of the road. The emergency vehicles past our car. We did not think much of it and began to move on. Very quickly more emergency vehicles were coming from all directions. Again, we moved to the shoulder of the road. We saw them heading do

A new book is out called "Love Johnny Carson". This book was written by Mark Malkoff with David Ritz. Mark Malkoff describes his book as "one obsessive fan's journey to find the genius behind the legend". You may have been a fan of Johnny Carson, or may be too young to even remember him but have an interest in who he really was this four-hundred page book will tell you almost every detail of his entire life. When you have completed this book, you should understand why the "To

The first public library in the U.S. was founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. Public libraries quickly became very popular. They are funded by public resources such as taxes and donations. They give free access to books and information resources. Libraries continue to be very popular to this day. The modern library gives access to books in various formats, digital collections, public internet access and educational programs. I have gone to the library for a l

The Detroit Tigers are in Florida a sign that winter is starting to come to an end and spring is around the corner. It looks like the Tigers are serious about making a run for the World Series with the recent additions to the pitching staff. This should be an exciting season for Tiger fans. The Tigers announced recently that there is going to be some changes regarding the television broadcasts this season. From what I heard the team has made a deal with the MLB network to tel

The N.F.L held its championship games this past Sunday. The Seattle Seahawks beat the L.A. Rams and will go to the Super Bowl for the 5th time. {I hoped Matt Stafford and the L.A. Rams would win.} In the A.F.C. the New England Patriots beat Denver and will play in the Super Bowl for the 12th time. The Detroit Lions did not make the playoffs this season and once again will not be in the Super Bowl. The first Super Bowl was played in 1967. The Lions have never played in the big