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“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln Late last year a cousin of mine passed away unexpectedly. Tom was a few years older than me, finishing college at Northwestern...
My grandparents moved to South Florida this month 40 years ago. They are of course both long gone, taking that last one way trip to Chicago with no return. It would have perhaps made for an even better story if I told you that they left after...
Perhaps it's the transient periods of Spring like weather recently when it isn't snowing, Dairy Queens reopening on the Ides of March or just cabin fever, but I have spent a lot of time recently thinking about fishing with my father. He passed...
The last MASH episode aired last month 25 years ago. I remember that like it wasn't 25 years ago. And news recently that the actor who played MAJ Winchester passed away got me to thinking... Among my peers and colleagues over the years I have...
One of my favorite YouTube videos is entitled "Surgeon vs. Pathologist" but it could easily be "Pulmonologist" or "Gastroenterologist" or "Urologist" or more "vs. Pathologist". Every pathologist has their own stories about these incidences and...
Until I was about 5, my family and I lived above my father's photography studio along a busy road in a near Western suburb of Chicago. Much like Cicero, that I mentioned a year ago about The Knife Sharpener and Jimmy, unless you lived or worked...
