Sunday Newscape Magazine

If you're like most people, at some point in December (probably when you were under the influence of some seriously spiked eggnog), you began making your New Year's resolutions. And why did you make these resolutions? Because you want to be a better person. You want to be like that perfect person you know who has a perfect body, the perfect job, a perfectly clean house and perfectly behaved children. Even that person's dog is one of those perfect canines usually owned only by celebrities.

Sometimes life offers you a good wake up call to remind you that changes are needed. The day after Christmas I stared reality in the face and had a lot of time to think about it.

In reading my column last week, perhaps you noticed how short it was. The fact is I don’t remember writing it. I guess my subconscious mind locked in and let my pen do the talking. Little did I know, I was extremely ill.

Two kinds of gratitude:

The sudden kind we feel for what we take;
the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Edwin Arlington Robinson

The days of the big-name bank robbers - John Dillinger, “Baby Face” Nelson, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, and the like were long gone when a pair of enterprising, dangerous, and slightly offbeat crooks arrived on the scene in the early 1960s. But within a few years, they’d be as wanted as any of the gun-slinging bank robbers of the gangster era.