I was all set to sit down tonight and write about a topic that I had picked out, and as I was speaking with Al, a Jewish friend of mine, he reminded me that I had to wait two more…
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The news has been filled the last several days with reports of the speech that Robert Kennedy gave in Indianapolis following the assassination of Martin Luther King on Aril 4, 1968 – a Thursday, for those of you who are…
I really loved my father. If you read yesterday’s post, you know that today would have been his 88th birthday – but he died back in 1978 when he was 55. He was 30 years older than I am and…
Today is Janet’s birthday. She really didn’t want to do anything special; so we took it easy this morning, went out and had lunch at Kona’s, and then headed to church for the early Saturday service. Then, of course, we…
As we near the end of this April 1st, I am reminded of all the practical jokes and pranks that I have been a part of during my life. But let’s face it – all of us have done foolish…
Back in 1969 and’70, as a 17 year old high school senior, I used to attend Friday night dances, we called them sock hops, at Mother McAuley; a girl’s Catholic High School in Oak Lawn, on the far south side…
When I was young, my parents had a housekeeper, Elouise, who had worked for members of our family for many years. She used to predict that my brother Doug would become a “preacher boy”, and that I would become a…
Every once in a while, and I mean not very often, you meet someone who touches your heart; even if only a little. And that was the way it was with George, when we met more than 6-1/2 years ago,…
Ten years ago today we moved into our current home in Carmel. We have lived in Carmel since the fall of 1982, and this is our third home in the area. We started with a smaller place that we lived…
legalese |ˌlēgəˈlēz; -ˈlēs|noun informal, often derogatory – the formal and technical language of legal documents that is often hard to understand. Well, our trip to Hilton Head is over and we are on our way back home. Although we could have made the entire drive in one day, it rained much of the afternoon, and…