I was listening to the 9-11 memorial on CNN this morning, and I was shocked that it has been seven years since the World Trade Center fell. That was a crazy day. I remember seeing the first tower fall on the tiny television in our Chicago office, and shortly afterward looking up at the Sears Tower once our building had been...
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Last summer, I was mowing the back yard when I noticed something big and green clinging to our wooden fence. I stopped the mower to get a better look, and it was a praying mantis! I don’t think that I had ever seen one up close before, so it was kinda cool. I invited the neighbor kids to check him out, and the younger...
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Legend has it that Orville Redenbacher lived in the same subdivision in Valparaiso as my Aunt Linda, before he sold off the company and moved away, so the town has had a Popcorn Festival ever since. The Festival is situated downtown, with the Courthouse at its center, and they close off a bunch of streets for the event. There...
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There are certain things, like plants, that die almost immediately upon being placed in our care. Chrissy has never met a houseplant that she hasn’t killed. As it turns out, we can add fish to this list of doomed items. Today, Aiden’s pet fish died. I’m not sure if, at age two, he comprehends death, but...
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