Eileen and I were both attending Proviso East High School, in Maywood, Illinois.  I met her waiting for the bus that took us to school in the morning.  She had just moved in across Roosevelt Road in Maywood, and I lived acro...

When I moved to Whidbey Island in 1992, my first job was as a composition typesetter for The South Whidbey Record. Although I worked primarily for Jim Larsen, upon occasion I subbed for Ann Adams, my cohort at the Whidbey News-Times...