When I was in high school, I was convinced that I was going to be the next Mike Royko, who was a well-known newspaper columnist in Chicago. I have always enjoyed writing. If I wasn’t reading, I was writing angst-filled, teenage poetry (“my life is like a circle, spinning round…
Good and bad. Right and wrong. Positive and negative. Heaven and Hell. Virtue and vice. I would like to think I’m mostly on the left side of all those combinations. I’m certainly not perfect, but I’m pretty boring if you’re looking for me to be in the bad/wrong/negative/Hell/vice category. I’ve…
I cried on my first day of kindergarten. 😥🤣 I was so excited to be starting school, and I waited patiently at the bus stop with my dad—and the bus didn’t come. I was devastated, as devastated as a five-year-old can be anyway. Obviously, Dad drove me to school and…
