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This past Saturday was out of the ordinary in no small way. To start, I went to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field. Me. Mike Knezovich, lifelong White Sox fan. I went because our good friend Denny Wills has season tickets this year, and he’s not a casual fan—he’s a supremely knowledgeable baseball fan who […]

Beth writes often about her mom, Flo — most recently this past mother’s day. Flo spent that day at a rehabilitation facility, where she has been getting geared up to move into her new assisted living apartment. Flo has yet to make it into her new digs — but she’s working on it. She’s had a series of setbacks, […]

I refer to my mom by her first name, and if you follow this blog, you already know a lot about Flo. Over the years, you may have read: that she was only 45 years old when our dad died, and from then on she worked full time and raised us on her own a […]

All six of my brothers and sisters are grandparents. My oldest sister, Bobbie, has three great-grandchildren. As my husband Mike likes to say, “It’s not a family, it’s a nation!” Buying Christmas presents for the entire Nation of Flo is out of the question. So we pick names, and you have to make a gift […]