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The Musical Wheel

My daughter, Nancy was on the phone today from California and I was at my computer and the small drawer on my computer table was open. It is crammed full of stuff and wonderful memories […]

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The Tap Dancer

It was 1978 and I was almost fifty. My daughter, Nancy, twenty- two. . I had a booking to do three early morning speeches in the grand ballroom of the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago. […]

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Squirrels

Squirrels climbed up under the hood of my Ford Escape and chewed up a mess of wires again. AAA sent out one of those long, long hydraulic flatbed rigs to move it to a repair […]

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Hyperventilation

I don’t ever want to do those things I ought to do There’s always something new out there for me I swear it’s true There’s something bigger or better or lovelier that I see There’s […]

Weekly Memo

Criticism

Here’s how the Chicago Times in 1865 evaluated President Lincoln’s Gettsyburg Address in commenting on it the day after its delivery. “The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, […]

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Aren’tchaglad?

Aren’tchaglad you’re not working in Washington, D.C. right now? Aren’tcha? And aren’tchaglad you’re not a commentator on one of those TV news shows where they line up a mess of broadcasters or so called experts […]

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The Binge

I’ve been on a binge for over a month now and it just beginning to show some positive results. I’ve been working on a booklet tentatively titled “Stuff I Wrote”. One by one I have […]

Art and Jean Fettig
Weekly Memo

Aunt Jean

My wife, Jean, just celebrated her 82nd birthday and the cards and candy and flowers and phone calls and the messages on Facebook – they were inspiring. Some of those messages written on the cards […]