One year, 4 months, 12 days. That’s how long we prepared to lose him, but we still weren’t ready. We could never be ready. On May 9, 2019, the floor fell out of our world when my husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At 12:24 p.m. on September 20, 2020,…
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…
