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If news happens and you don’t know it, is it news? I am sure there are those who don’t know that the last 72 hours witnessed a wedding in England, scrap of a space shuttle launch, beatification of a dead … Continue reading →

To erase his name from the polls of humanity will take time. To become indifferent will take time, but that’s what it takes because the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference. I want to … Continue reading →

I hope Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D), in therapy to recover from a shot in the head that leveled her Jan. 8, 2011, near Tucson, AZ, is crabby. To regain use of her right side, she pushes shopping carts down … Continue reading →

On this airplane, I want to sit as close to the pilot as possible. Having done a little airborne transport, I know for a fact that the butt of the plane is where bumping and thumping ravel nerves and provoke … Continue reading →

Dad got old very fast when his age flopped from 85 to 86 years old. He recognized all of his neighbors and kin, and what he recognized bore little resemblance to who each was at the time. I visited him … Continue reading →

Today is Earth Day and today is Good Friday. Here we have earth sitting at the head of the table to blow out candles on one more year of pulsation. Here we have a day of the year when the … Continue reading →

Good Friday is oddly named. It’s the day, in the life of Catholics, to say the stations of the cross by walking the walk with a savior man who was too young to die and was so much better than … Continue reading →

Dad loved the color brown, which I found inexplicably hilarious. Who liked brown?Mom found his choice less humorous, I think because he lavished this preference on things that might have sported a hue more lively, more comely. He got around … Continue reading →

Aunt Dollie warrants remembrance and attention, which was what she got when she lived. I knew her as my Dad’s aunt during the 1960s and thought her exotic and stylish, as far as aunts go. Her haircolor was eggwhite, and … Continue reading →

During the 1960s, the worst part about going to confession in Immaculate Conception Church in Elmhurst was waiting in line bestride its two confessionals. We had a lot of sinners in Elmhurst and most of them went to confession on … Continue reading →