Category Archives: Feature

The DeeZee Spirit By Darrell Zegers (from his book "The Best of DZ") DZ Writes This Week I’m getting older by the minute, and time is running out for me. I got a crazy idea, rented a car, and took off for the Grand Canyon. My old ‘54 Ford is my favorite car to drive but it gets about...

The Ad-Venture to Save Two Percent One recent Saturday, I went to West Des Moines to see an old friend. He had a car for sale that I was interested in. I told him I would meet him at Cheddar’s for lunch. Even if we could not make a deal, I would get a chance to have...

  Feathered, frustrating soloist I’m not going to bore you people and tell you that I’m sitting at a picnic table in southern California writing this article or that it is 74 degrees. I’m not going to tell you that I’m going to the NHRA winter national drag races in Pomona on Thursday and Friday. If I were to...

The world is changing fast with all the political crap that goes on. Even some of the locals think Biden is doing a great job. Even one of my neighbors bought an electric lawn mower. His chest was puffed out. He told me the number of people who think Biden is doing a great job has skyrocketed...

Ready to Assemble Am I the only man that is married to a woman that buys entertainment centers, dressers, shelves, cabinets, etc. in boxes so they need to be put together in the home? Her last purchase of such an unassembled contraption was a thing called an armoire. She bought this dresser-cabinet-closet type piece of wood at...

DZ writes this week Well, I’m out of money so it looks like I’m going to have to begin boring you people again. It didn’t take long before an idea popped into my thick skull. I was working on my old 1954 Ford. It has custom wheels on it with a small chrome cap in the middle of...

  One Wife, Four Girls, Four Pets, and One Sense of Humor As a young man, I was led to believe that a man who sires sons is a better man than one who sires daughters. This may be true, but I am sure it takes a tougher man to raise and try to live with daughters. The...