not-there-yet

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Anyone else feeling the pressure of our new normal? As the walls seem to close in, I thought of a past lesson God showed me.

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With a title like that, I guess I could take this many directions. For one, “forgetting what lies behind, but pressing on to what’s ahead.”

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In honor of Mother’s Day,here’s a post for the other 364 days… [Originally written and published in my Kenosha News “My Turn” column] I don’t think

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I’ll never forget the look on her face. I was five, and we were on a school field trip, an Easter party

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Ugghh! The draft. Not the football one. Or the one that sends young men to war. But the written one that sits for days, weeks,

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Cisco Cotto said it one morning on Moody Radio Chicago: “What if we showed as much patience at home as we do fishing?” I’ll admit,

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I wanted to be her Valentine. A wonderful group of college peers had pulled together enough cash to let me fly home to see her.

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Can’t believe I did it—again. For a person who loves to see words flow across the page, I sure get tripped up by the ones

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Yes, we all know what the saying is supposed to be. For every door closed, there’s that opened window, right? But what if there

Need some encouragement?