Every year we get these great little cards showing clean fresh snow blanketing the ground on Christmas Eve.  Commercials of a flannel shirted man and woman drinking hot coco as they watch the snow fall softly outside.  I call a flag on the play!

While this is a very nice picture it is so far off the reality of winter.  As a child I remember snow being fun, white, and short lived.  It was the one thing that could give you a few days off in January.  Today however it is none of this.

Where is the card showing the man cleaning the dirty snow burgs from the garage because they fell of the car?  Where is the relentless shoveling until March?  Lastly, for people like me, where is the cancelled and delayed flight board on a nice holiday greeting?  There is none!  Just fluffy white non-tragic and non-shovel type snow that falls on cue.

As you can see I am really looking forward to the next couple months…

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The title suggests a remedial course in Writing 101.  Not so.  "Learning to write" actually means - learning to set time aside each day to write.  Writing goes hand in hand with reading; two better skills I know not.

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I remember it was about this time of year when Mom passed, but the actual day I do not fret about.  Dad knew, but he is gone now too.  I do know we waked her on New Years Day in Kankakee, IL.  The details of her death have faded, but the details that count will never leave me.  Allow me today to give a tribute to my mother.

It was during her hospital stay in WV, at the end, that I really got to see my mom.  I learned so much by talking with her assistants, friends and other department heads (a.k.a. Mom's peeps!)  My father was a life long salesman and everyone told me I got my sales and management skills from him.  I think it was 2/3 her and 1/3 him in truth.

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