Category: Family
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Hairspray and Hashtags: High School Then and Now
My son heads to his first homecoming while I prepare for my 40th reunion. High school shapes us all, though the marks it leaves look different across generations.
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Four Minutes, Fifteen Years
From a Sunday night concert without dance partners to Monday’s high school registration to Tuesday’s OR vigil, three quiet days reveal the thresholds of parenthood and the way of everything.
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Remembering Pop
Eulogy for my father, Lester “Les” Eugene Kane (July 1, 1934 – January 15, 2015). Originally delivered on Saturday 07 February 2015 at Glueckert Funeral Home, Arlington Heights, IL. My father was hard-working yet easy-going, soft-spoken and an impeccable dresser, fastidious, witty, and handsome. He was born in 1934 in Fairfield, Iowa, the…
Captain Reverend Mother 