Who do you need to thank?I was pondering early this morning the people who have impacted me the most during my lifetime. I tried to remember aunts and uncles, grandparents; I went through a long list of people in my life. My dad was a great example of being a strong leader in the family.  He was a colonel in the army lived by rules and by following them. My grandparents were all good people. But I never got to know them, because of all of our moving around the world. Aunts and uncles were a...
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I was taking my turn at batting practice for our church softball team at Shabbona Park in Park Forest, a suburb on the south side of Chicago. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed an older gentleman dressed in a blue suit leaning against the fence watching me hit softballs. I was hitting the balls over the 320 foot outfield fence onto people's roofs. I would look at this man as I got ready for another pitch. It was between my senior year in high school and freshman year in college. I had never h...
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I was sound asleep when I got the call late last night from my nephew "your sister is not doing good, I talked to Dennis and he said that she was fading fast, and its not looking good." As I turned and looked at the clock by my bed it was 11:30 PM, I thought that I heard my cell phone ring several times while sleeping, then when I heard I heard my nephew voice speaking to me, I realized that I answered the phone. I asked him when he talked to Dennis my sisters husband, and he said a few min...
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What Went Wrong With Michael Jackson? By Dr. Michael Brooks I was watching the news while sitting in the hot tub soaking. I was tired from my treadmill workout, when suddenly a news bulletin came on. Michael Jackson was rushed to the hospital in cardiac arrest the news anchorman said. Hmm....I thought, he couldn't have been that old. I mean...he had plenty of medical personal attending him 24/7. Then, I recalled as a kid that I lived not more then 25 miles from him. He lived in Gary Indiana and...
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