For Pete’s Take: Swimsuit Season Awaits
It’s the time of year when folks everywhere decide to go green! Not the football cheer or hugging a tree, no this go green means salads and bowls of vegetables as we prepare to fit into our swimsuits this summer. Rather than reducing our carbon footprint, we focus on reducing our Carbonara footprint. Spring is a time for renewal and once again we renew...
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: One Foot of Heaven
When I learned this issue was our “food” issue I thought of visiting a typical sit-down restaurant and writing a review of my experience. Then I saw the light and came up with a better idea. Nothing ecclesiastical here, the light I saw was the “open” sign for Bell’s Greek Pizza, an East Lansing institution for more than 40 years. It’s like getting...
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: Matters of the Heart
Okay guys, one of the top five special days for your sweetheart is right around the corner. I’m not talking about the Super Bowl or President’s Day or even Fat Tuesday. I rank this day as the third most important day you can never forget, right behind your wife’s birthday and your wedding anniversary. Yep, it’s Valentine’s Day. They make it easy...
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: I Resolve … to Keep my Resolutions
Resolution: A resolve or determination Goal: The result of achievement toward which effort is directed Results: Something that happens as a consequence: outcome With each New Year brings the optimism that we’re going to turn over a new leaf — “this is the year when I finally (insert resolution) and stick to it.” Unfortunately we need to face the facts;...
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: Happy Holi-daze
I was in a store and I heard Christmas music and saw the decorations overflowing the shelves. Only problem is, it was a week before Halloween… really? The recent blending of the Holidays can seem disconcerting. I was looking at Freddy Krueger masks on one shelf and could turn my head to see Frosty the Snowman smiling at me from another shelf. It’s creepy...
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: Turkey Day Game Plan
Thanksgiving Day for me growing up in Michigan was all about tradition: lots of great food and the Detroit Lions on TV. Problem is, both traditions have a history of giving you indigestion or inducing a nap. That is until this year. The Lions Thanksgiving Day game against the Green Bay Packers could actually be significant compared to past years. This will...
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: You Can Go Home Again…
After being born and raised here in LA (Lansing Area) and living away for 30 years, my wife Brenda and I decided to move back home. To be more precise, it’s me who’s coming back home. Brenda (like John Mellencamp) grew up in a small town in Indiana. Moving to LA was not really coming home for her, although she’s happy to now be a Michigander. We all...
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: It’s a Woman’s World
You know you work with an office full of women when you’re included in the salutation “Ladies” in a group email. Don’t get me wrong, there are definitely many more pluses than minuses when it comes to working in the women’s world here at Motion Marketing & Media (M3). First off, I’m not the only guy. There are a total of four of us here full-time,...
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: Dream the Impossible (Day) Dream
Dream (noun) — a succession of images, thoughts or emotions passing through the mind during sleep. Daydream (noun) — a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass and experienced while awake. After reading the two definitions above I asked myself, how can you follow your dreams? You see,...
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For Pete’s Take: Over the Edge
Editor’s Note: We like to make our columnists work for their space, so when The Team Lansing Foundation asked us to send a member of our crew Over the Edge we sent Pete, giving him the adventure of a lifetime (our opinion, not his.) Visit (www.teamlansing.org) for more info. June 3, 2011 12:30 p.m. Walking on Seymour Avenue I can see Boji Tower in the distance....
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: Tie One On (or Not)
As Father’s Day begins its second 100 years as the holiday celebration for all things “Dad,” I’m left wondering, “what is the real meaning of Father’s Day?” Backyard barbeques, smaltzy greeting cards and dare I say it, the ugly necktie? Okay, so maybe all neckties aren’t ugly, but come on folks, who are we kidding here? Although as a country...
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