by Thomas F Daniels | Jun 17, 2018 | Coffee Talk
This weekend the 2nd Annual Black and White Like You and Me Breakfast was held at the restaurant of my former student at Brother Rice High School, Peter Andoni – Shields Restaurant in Southfield, Michigan. Over the past week, I could not help reflecting on the past...
by Thomas F Daniels | Jun 3, 2018 | Coffee Talk
Franklin Roosevelt said in his 1932 Inaugural Address as the Great Depression was crippling our country, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” I am not sure how to interpret those eight words, but I am happy that the American people took them to heart and...
by Thomas F Daniels | May 27, 2018 | Coffee Talk
We all have heard someone say, perhaps even ourselves, “That’s not the way I think” or possibly, “I just can’t understand it any other way.” Pastor Glenn McIntosh at the Renaissance Unity Church in Warren, Michigan made a thoughtful point concerning our ability to...
by Thomas F Daniels | May 14, 2018 | Coffee Talk
GAG ME WITH A SPOON: A Valley girl phrase used as an exclamation of disgust Over the years, my good friend Denny McMahon and I would “disgust” each other by texting the name of or a phrase from a song that could “gag” us. We have had a lot of fun with this trying to...
by Thomas F Daniels | May 6, 2018 | Coffee Talk
How did he die? Didn’t he have his nitroglycerine pills in his hand? Those pills would have surely saved him! And so it goes . . . Childproof, foolproof, theft proof, you name it proof. All packaging has now become a worthy opponent that takes power, ingenuity, and...
by Thomas F Daniels | Apr 30, 2018 | Coffee Talk
GUEST AUTHOR: FireHawk I ran into a guy about 30 years old recently who said he loved NFL mock drafts. Huh? Now he’s a nice kid who unfortunately doesn’t have a job so maybe he has time to read that gibberish. Mock Drafts – If you collected 100 of them, NONE would be...
