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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 at a park.

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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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They’re all off. Four in college and just one at home.

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A funny thing happened on the way to the Christmas brunch….by way of the night before–

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If I could ask you to close your eyes, I would. But it’s kind of hard to read that way, huh? Either way, I’d like

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