Mike Hennessey

Dateline Dayton —II recently received an email telling me prisoners have it better than some our senior citizens.

Dateline Dayton —In my last essay I told you my age. From some of my previous essays, you could surmise that I am fairly conservative. Why am I telling you this? You may be surprised at my stance this issue.

Dateline Dayton — The Las Vegas experience continued:

Dateline Dayton — Last Thursday my brother-in-law and I left for our annual trip to Las Vegas. This year we decided to take a different approach. Instead of taking the next flight out of Denver, our stopover on the way to Vegas, we decided to spend a day visiting casinos in Colorado.

Dateline Dayton — Again guns are in the news. This week, it was Detroit police officers who were killed in their own precinct.

Dateline Dayton — As a followup to last week’s essay regarding gun control: According to a report I read, gun sales soared on Monday, Jan. 10. Sales in Ohio rose by about 65 percent, and nationwide they increased 5 percent. They rose 60 percent in Arizona.

Dateline Dayton — With the killings and serious injuries from the shootings in Arizona, we have been hearing a lot about gun control. Here in Ohio we had a Deputy Sheriff killed a couple weeks ago, and a 10-year-old boy killed his mother. Then there was the teenage who got a pistol belonging to his police officer father and killed the assistant principal and wounded the principal of his school.

Dateline Dayton — This past weekend we celebrated New Year’s. My New Year’s Eve day started with a Mass for our classmate Judy who had died earlier in the month. Four or us from the Class of 1959 attended the service in Piqua, and afterwards we went to breakfast.

Dateline Dayton — I have always encouraged my children and grandchildren to learn a second language, and it has been Spanish. I was delighted when I learned that my youngest granddaughter was learning Spanish in pre-school.

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Dateline Dayton — I don’t know why, but when it comes to remodeling projects around the house, they’re always in progress around a holiday.