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Family

1. Like Mother, Like Son: Growing Up and Growing Old TogetherSeptember 27, 2017

   My Mother, Wilma Irene Shelley (Brownie) Williams was born January 9, 1921 and died September 20, 2017. This is a remembrance and tribute I read at her funeral. _______________________________________ When I think of growing up with my mother, both of us young but I younger, I am very thankful for the sometimes unjustified trust she…

2. Self Esteem, Sackcloth, and AshesJanuary 23, 2012

   Channel surfing while on the elliptical machine in the gym yesterday I ran across a panel discussion from David Axelrod’s University of Chicago Institute of Politics. One of the panelists was columnist David Brooks and he was saying that, in his opinion, what we have lost over the past fifty years or so is what…