Are you a brake or gas guy? An always-accelerate gal or not so much? Maybe you never look back. Or ahead. Nevertheless, it is time for our annual year-end review and fresh year forecast. We could analyze 2025 water under […]
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Coach
I can still see it. Red, shiny, waiting. Down the steps on a snowy Christmas morning just outside of Chicago in ’62… no not 1862 wisenheimer. But alas, it was 60+ years ago and might as well been the Civil
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Family
You don’t need a shrink. Wait, what? OK… if you already see a therapist, please continue. For others, this is an effort in self-analysis. After all, who doesn’t need that these days. Wars, scandals, inflation, politics, and pressure on every
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Faith, U.S.
Dad told his WWII life and death story with a certain reserve in his voice. His memory was sharp and so was the moment he zigged and his best Marine buddy zagged. One went left, the other right. On yet
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U.S.
The Los Angeles Dodgers won another World Series and a famous player quote has never been more true. “You don’t just accidentally show up in the World Series.” But wait, you say, isn’t that a Derek Jeter quote? It sure
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Sports
Twenty years ago today, we were speeding up the interstate… Carolina to Chicago with World Series tickets waiting at Will Call. Maybe. You didn’t know for sure you had tickets? Nope. Why not? It was 2005 and we did not
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Sports
If men and women are from Mars and Venus per the famous book, Generation Z must be from Pluto. Or maybe it’s the other way around. You are a Zoomer and the Boomer… most all Baby Boomers appear from… some
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Coach
“I am a rock, I am an island,” wrote Paul Simon. Interesting lyrics and tune from yesteryear, but probably not a great roadmap to bliss. Can you really hold to a belief in a bubble? What one believes is a
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Faith
It matters not whether you are left or right, red or blue, or somewhere in between. Hate is an equal opportunity killer. And as we’ve all learned, “killer” is literal these days. Choose your description… epidemic, sickness, satanic, all of
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U.S.
What a difference four or five years makes. Five years ago, we were in the throes of a pandemic that sadly took lives and changed many others. Employment tanked. Four years ago, it rebounded, and the economy followed. Employees could
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Coach
Can’t say I was itching to go. Sunny and 70 on an otherwise great Saturday morning and we had an appointment… at the funeral home. No, that we know of, our demise is not imminent. But the better half said
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Faith
What you and eleven others learn first-hand and quickly in a felony trial is that distinct difference between “innocent” and “not guilty.” The judge’s jury instructions, opening arguments, and the whole premise that is “burden of proof” point away from
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Life
Jury duty is a journey you will not soon forget, assuming you make it to the jury box. In today’s culture of civic duty avoidance, perhaps we should not assume. Not you, of course, would seek a courtroom exit door
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Life
First time experiences cannot be replicated. Because they are the first. And first is a one-time deal. Many have traveled the globe, met notables, or tested their nerve – bungee jumping some canyon, parachuting, or a 150mph+ drive (the latter
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Life
There’s something about the end of summer. For starters, it now comes sooner… or so it seems. Remember when summer didn’t end or school begin until Labor Day? Whenever summer ends, fall reflections can’t be far off. Was it a
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Faith
Given we all know there’s no free lunch, it may be hard for non-Boomers to believe there was a day when content came with no charge. We called it “free TV”. Or just “TV” since no one was charging anyone
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Media
World Series Championships don’t come around very often, especially in Chicago. That’s true whether you’re a North or Southsider… the only variable being the current level of misery. The Cubs were widely embraced for ending their Billy Goat Curse in
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Sports
It’s hard to imagine the American founding fathers concerned themselves with the thought of a Semiquincentennial a couple of centuries down the road, much less how to spell the word. After all, their world was complex enough… old school monarchy
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U.S.
Hard to believe we’re halfway to 2026… but here we are staring at the end of a summer that just began. Time is like that. A season, a year, a lifetime waits on no man, woman, child. Kids don’t circle
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Life
