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More Valuable Than a Royalty Check
February was a long month at my house. Part of it was the weather, which thanks to the inexorable march of time, is now only a dim memory. But part of it was something else was the long wait for the first sales report (and royalty check) for A Different Dream for My...
Cheers…Where Everybody Knows Your Name
For the past few weeks, I’ve been watching the first season of the 1980s sitcom Cheers. The cover note said the series debuted in 1982. Since Allen was born in May of ’82 and most of his first year of life is a blur, I can’t figure out why I remember so many of the...
Turkey Tortilla Soup
With the end of winter, soup season is almost over. But there’s still time for one more soup recipe, one that’s light and warm on a chilly spring evening. My mom found the recipe in a free heart health publication at the grocery store a few years ago. It takes less...
Potholes vs. Minnesota Jokes
After a winter of blizzards and icy roads, traveling weather has improved greatly in the last few weeks. The arrival of sunny days and calm winds coincided with a speaking engagement in Minneapolis one week and a spring break trip to Morgantown, West Virginia the...
March Is at It Again
I’m back from a road trip to Morgantown, West Virginia with my daughter and her fiance. The trek across the midsection of our great country in one of the two most dismal months of the year (November being the other) confirmed my belief that March is a tease at best...
You Don’t Give Up
For the past few weeks, staying positive has been a struggle. Why? For starters, the fourth quarter of this interminable winter finally melted away, creating a flood zone. So after two successful speaking engagements (at this point “successful” means they weren’t...