Lessons From Nights Of The Round Table

Lessons From Nights Of The Round Table

by | Apr 9, 2006 | Detroit Free Press

Attendance was mandatory. You had to be on time. Appearance mattered. No outside items were permitted. And no one left until all were dismissed.

I am not talking about school, church or the military.

I am talking about family dinners.

If I had to point to one thing as the glue of my childhood, it would be those meals. They were fixed and firm. We waited for everyone. We never had the TV or radio playing. And we stayed at that table – eating, talking, laughing, yelling – sometimes for hours.

Lessons From Nights Of The Round Table

IT’S OPENING DAY – CALL A LAWYER

by | Apr 2, 2006 | Detroit Free Press

Baseball season officially begins today, but many fans already are sick of it.Has there ever been a year in which the game has brought more of a shudder? Before a real pitch even has been thrown, baseball is neck high in investigations, lawsuits, grand juries, books,...
Lessons From Nights Of The Round Table

‘I AM NOT AN EXPERIMENT’

by | Mar 22, 2006 | Detroit Free Press

He was always crazy. Crazy as in lovable. But now he’s sick. He may be dying. He has this weird disease that has reduced him to a husk of his old large self, affected his walking, breathing, digestion, even robbing him of the simple action of rising from a chair...
Lessons From Nights Of The Round Table

THIS ANNIVERSARY BRINGS NO CHEER

by | Mar 19, 2006 | Detroit Free Press

Three years ago, we went to war.Three years later, we remain at war.Three years ago, we were told that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Three years later, none has been found.Three years ago, the threat was Saddam. Three years later, the threat is...
Lessons From Nights Of The Round Table

WITH KITNA, IT’S HERE WE GO AGAIN

by | Mar 15, 2006 | Detroit Free Press

There are four seasons in the NFL. The regular season, the postseason, the off-season – and quarterback season.Unlike the other three, quarterback season runs 365 days a year. The moment there’s a rumor, it’s quarterback season. The moment a guy is...
Lessons From Nights Of The Round Table

HATE HAS NO PLACE AT A SOLDIER’S FUNERAL

by | Mar 12, 2006 | Detroit Free Press

Funerals are different. Funerals are for private grieving. And, therefore, funerals, at times, should be off-limits.Especially to a warped organization such as the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., which goes around protesting at funerals, jeering and waving...
Lessons From Nights Of The Round Table

WITH CLOCK TICKING, DARKO HAD TO GO

by | Feb 16, 2006 | Detroit Free Press

He was the firecracker that we watched as kids, standing in a circle, hands in our ears. It fizzled. It went poof.”Is that it?” we asked.Darko Milicic never exploded. You knew it. I knew it. Anyone who watched him play over the years knew it. He looked...