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Well, tonight marks my 2000th post on TBTB. Not 200, mind you - but 2000! I would never have thought that things would have continued this long. For those of you who may not have been here from the beginning,…

Many years ago, my brother Doug gave Kristin, our eldest daughter, a large framed poster for her graduation. It isn’t just large, it’s very large, like 6 feet wide and 4 feet tall. It’s in French and has an image…

Yesterday, Janet and I celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary. It was a special day for the two of us, but in all honesty, we didn’t really DO anything special. It is enough to just be together. I guess that is…

The last several days I have been up in Cleveland working with a leadership team that I visit in person every other month or so. This time, I was blessed to have Janet travel with me, in addition to Lori,…

I grew up in an all-white elementary school. Well, that is until 7th grade when there was a small forced integration of several students who were brought into the neighborhood from an area east of Beverly, the community we grew…