Articles Archive for February 2009
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A few weeks ago I was visiting Rob Hickey at his tidy shop. He has a furniture refinishing business. I knew I would enjoy lively conversation about the things of the Lord and he promised me a sample of Greek coffee. While I was there his son Steven came in. He told me about the Russell Street Deli. I said, “You and your dad and my son Chuk and I should go there together some time.”
He said, “There is a huge bookstore down there, too.”
Now he really …
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I love books but I can’t imagine being willing to go to jail for them. Shelly Koontz did. I don’t think they have much crime in Iowa. They jailed Shelly because she failed to return a library book. It was due last April. She spent two hours in jail before posting $250 bond. You can buy a lot of books with that. Here in the greater Detroit area our criminals are usually not that well-read. (I just read this post to my daughters and they said that if they lived …


