This photo prompts me to express gratitude for each member of our immediate family. Taken at a birthday golf outing in Naperville in October of 2018, we celebrate the accomplishments of each member. We are blessed to be in good health, to be here, now, together. I include this youtube video of the great…
The story has no end. More remains to be said. Our daughter in law crossed the finish line in Grant Park in just a little over four hours. At three points on the race course we saw her pass by and shouted her name to recognize her and to cheer her on to the…
I do not expect to run a marathon. Pheidippides ran 26.2 miles to announce that Athens would not be annihilated by the Persians in 490 BC. That makes perfect sense to me. That scale of good news is worth the effort. But I am not an Attic Greek. Running twenty-six miles for personal satisfaction…
Someone To Watch Over Me fills the background here, a languid voice. Perhaps it is Ella Fitzgerald. I hear the piano notes with the singular melody caressing the patrons, myself included, here at Starbucks. This is a morning when I wish that I could talk with my mother. I can only imagine her presence,…
I spent the day in Lincoln Square, Chicago yesterday. A Friend offered to discuss a business startup concept. I jumped at the opportunity. One never knows. Something important and beneficial might be born from a give and take of ideas, conceiving of experimental steps, to discover whether a vision does in fact address the…
The morning came with gusty winds, cloud swept sky, all signs of advance of the cold air mass, roiling against the warmth of the retreating southern formation. Advance, retreat, friction, thunder and lightning, and a gentle rain if we are lucky. A flood if we are unlucky. Welcome to another day of life on…
This topic comes easy. Laura and I have been married for forty-eight years. She is my best friend and friendship is a hint of eternity, a bond that seems to defeat the erosion of time, growing better and stronger year by year. This song by Journey is heard often on the radio. I think…
With an interlude of forty-five minutes I stopped at Starbucks to do some reading yesterday afternoon. Starbucks is a bar for non-alcohol drinkers, for the introverted types who have a proclivity for caffeine, and for studying. I glanced up from my reading to see the individual at the adjoining table. This afternoon, how long…
Yesterday afternoon with some time on my hands I decided to walk around Viking Park at the Gurnee Park District. A light rain was falling. The plantings in the park are well cared for. A variety of tree species are planted to memorialize individuals; paving stones honor community organizations. What better way to establish…
Sunday? I awakened as if in a time warp. My conscious mind was oriented toward the coming day at the office. Waking at 6AM, I left the house for Starbucks with the dawn barely showing to the east. In my dissociation, a day was missing. I glanced at the newspaper rack at Starbucks and…
