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December 30, 2015 Poor Ethan Couch. In 2013, this spoiled rich kid got drunk, drove seventy miles an hour, killed four innocent people and critically injured nine others in a crash authorities said was more like a plane crash than … Continue reading →

December 25, 2015 I spent the night in dreams, half awake and stroking the cat. At some point I got up and walked outside. Barred owls were calling from the trees across the cornfield. A line of animals padded across … Continue reading →

December 22, 2015 I spent most of yesterday getting more post surgery tests regarding my C5 cadaver bone. We’ll know next week if the surgery has to be done over. Meantime, I’ve learned the identity of the donor whose bone … Continue reading →

December 7, 2015 The worst argument I ever got into, involved the great Randy Newman’s song “Short People.” A friend insisted that it was a disgusting and heinous mockery of genetics, while I pointed out the obvious satire. She never … Continue reading →

December 6, 2015 It was 1971. I cain’t recall what I ate for breakfast this mornin’, but I remember this old dream. Ain’t that somethin’? This old world is somethin’. So me and my wife Sam Ann was sound asleep, … Continue reading →

November 28, 2015 I drove to the local BP station and convenience store for my morning “bold” Brazilian coffee. Take your own mug, it costs .84 cents; buy eight, get one free. And they grill lunch there: meatloaf sandwiches, chicken … Continue reading →

November 25, 2015 This may be the longest stretch between columns for me. Real events have temporarily taken over, especially the revelation that my great-great grandfather William Holton Jones was a leader of the Underground Railroad in Michigan, helping thousands … Continue reading →

November 10, 2015 I have been living a lie, to some extent. And I want to come clean. I pray you will not judge me. There are some things about my early life that I am not proud of. If … Continue reading →

November 5, 2015 In the glow of bonfire light, she showed me the ring of ashes which circled the old maple tree, the ashes of her friend who had died from cancer this year. There had been a dignified ceremony … Continue reading →

Police officer Charles Gliniewicz. Does that name ring a bell? Recently, in Lake County, Illinois, the officer was found dead in his patrol car, after calling in to his station that he was in pursuit of three suspects. His body … Continue reading →