Michigan City Residents and Former Residents

11/09/2025

09/20/2025

Freedom of speech, doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.

09/19/2025

The IPhone 17 Pro Max is outstanding. So many new innovations. The orange is different.

04/15/2025

When Control Masquerades as Care

It’s painful to witness what happens when control is mistaken for love — when one person holds so much power over another that even simple conversations are filtered through glances for approval. That’s not guidance. That’s fear.

Some daughters, sadly, grow into roles they were never meant to play — silencing their own children, rewriting family bonds, and turning milestones into weapons. A granddaughter’s graduation should be a celebration shared with all who love her. But sometimes, invitations are withheld not by the graduate, but by someone else pulling strings — someone who confuses loyalty with obedience.

It’s even more heartbreaking when the same person speaks casually of lawsuits as if they’re family heirlooms, and openly admits staying in a marriage not for love, but for leverage — waiting, calculating, watching time pass until an inheritance arrives. That kind of thinking doesn’t just erode trust — it poisons legacies.

This isn’t about pointing fingers. It’s about recognizing when something has gone wrong — when pain and bitterness disguise themselves as “protection,” when relationships are used like currency, and when love is conditional on control.

To anyone reading this who feels a sting — perhaps it’s not guilt, but recognition. The chance to change course. To break the cycle. To allow love to be chosen, not demanded. Before the silence becomes permanent.

03/31/2024

People change in four different seasons:
People change when they feel they WANT to,
WHEN they see enough they are INSPIRED to,
WHEN they LEARN enough that they WANT to and
WHEN they SEE enough they are able to.

08/25/2023

08/25/2023

COMPUTER PROBLEM

I had a problem yesterday, so I called Eric, the 11 year old next door, whose bedroom looks like Mission Control and asked him to come over.

Eric clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem.

As he was walking away, I called after him, 'So, what was wrong?

He replied, 'It was an ID ten T error.'

I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired, 'An, ID ten T error? What's that? In case I need to fix it again.'

Eric grinned ...'Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?

'No,' I replied.

'Write it down,' he said, 'and I think you'll figure it out.'

So I wrote down: ID10T

I used to like Eric, the little s**t head.

08/25/2023

An old country doctor went way out
to the boondocks to deliver a baby.

It was so far out,
there was no electricity.

When the doctor arrived,
no one was home except the laboring
mother and her 5-year-old son.

The doctor instructed the boy
to hold the lantern high so he could see
while he helped the woman deliver the baby.

The boy did so.

The mother pushed and after a while,
the doctor lifted the newborn by the feet
and spanked him on the bottom to get him
to take his first breath.

The doctor then asked the 5-year-old
what he thought of the baby.

The little guy responded:

"S***k him again.

He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place."

08/25/2023

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