Happydog Guest Blog Every month, one of my friends, colleagues or students will be a guest blogger, answering the question, "What makes you happy?" Checkout this month's guest post: Pete Amrhein, Retail Buyer and Rock Band Lead Singer Sometimes you don’t really know what makes you happy until you stumble over it. You can LOOK and CLIMB for a mountaintop and then not, like, actually DIG BEING THERE after arriving (I remember thinking that finally kissing Monica Horvath in seco

Happydog Guest Blog Every month, one of my friends, colleagues or students will be a guest blogger, answering the question, "What makes you happy?" Checkout this month's guest post: Marianna (Nan) Plumstead, Longtime Friend of Paulie & Patti (Patrick's wife and sister in law) Photo description (left to right): This is the happy trio of Angie, their son Jordan, and Marianna (Nan). Both Nan and Ang are amazing food aficionados and professional cooks who live in East Grand Rapid

For Those About to Rock A salute to an old friend and his family I was about 12 years old when Chuck Craig moved into the neighborhood. We both just finished seventh grade and our birthdays turned out to be only one day apart. We instantly became great friends. Chuck moved from Walnut City, California (about 20 miles east of Oakland) where everything was cooler than our mid-sized, midwest town of Jackson, Michigan. While I introduced him to a few of my more mundane activities