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…
Middle school is full of (mostly) great memories for me. It wasn’t called middle school back then. It was called junior high, and I started at Wilkins Junior High School in sixth grade at the ripe old age of 11. I have always been tall, but I reached my full…
Our daughter made her Confirmation today. I grew up going to church every week. When our daughter was born and before she started school full-time, my parents watched her every day, so they were always taking her to church for something or other. She attended Vacation Bible School regularly, sometimes…
