WRIGHTS LANE

W riters march to the beat of a different drummer.  They think with their fingers on a keyboard.  They are driven by ideas and a compulsion ...

THIS MORNING, 8:30 So this fellow says to me:  "Hey man, how about this weather?  Ain't it pretty?" I says to him:  ...

S omething has come between Rosanne and I.  It is our little doggy Lucy. Contrary to the advice of so-called animal experts, Lucy allows u...

I didn't talk to anyone today apart from Rosanne when she wasn't sleeping and Lucy, when she wasn't sleeping.  No one talked mu...

I heard an interesting comment the other day to the effect that you can't live your life on the expectations of others.   That had a ce...

M y conversation with "an old friend" (yesterday's post, below) was, of course, a figment of my imagination, exercising creati...

I have a very special old friend who I do not talk to as often as I should.  This morning, I called on him for a few minutes. "Sorry...

What follows is not the result of a conversation.  It is, however, the result of appreciating the words of Rev. Keith Reynolds , a periodic ...

I talked to a chap yesterday who has been out of work for more than a year due to a back injury.  He has recovered sufficiently to go back ...

I was talking to a neighbor about the difficulty of maintaining diets and all the advice we are exposed to in the media (television, newspa...

A s a matter of routine, I do not always have the necessary time, energy or inspiration to write (in my mind) entertaining, thought-provokin...

MY FAMILY HOME in Dresden from a water colour painting collection.  Note the two front door entrances.  Also one of the original front doo...

I actually learned something yesterday in the 50 minutes that I spent in a car dealership waiting to have winter snow tires installed on m...

W e were laying in bed the other morning, groggily discussing what we were going to have for breakfast. "O no," I interjected....

What is the significance of this photo?  Just read on and you'll see!  I often think that I would be unable to express myself, were i...

I n a recent Wrights Lane post I talked about the old ceiling and floor grates that used to allow heat to circulate from one level of a home...

My hometown of Dresden is noted for more than just Uncle Tom's Cabin, championship baseball and hockey teams, its popular raceway and c...

Color Party leads the way to the Cenotaph in Southampton. Remembrance day, 2011 .

T he best quote that I've heard in a long time: "People always say 'Motivation is great but it doesn't last.' I just ...

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ( Albert Einstein ) I am a left-handed dyslexic.  Can it get any wor...

I have received a special request to re-produce one of my earliest posts on Wrights Lane.  "The Church Ladies" was/is one of my f...

I n an age where liberties are taken with almost everything, I resist the misguided impulse to apologize for being a literalist in interpret...

The Detroit River, representing the border between Ontario and the United States, has always been one of the busiest waterways in the worl...