I’m not sure when I stopped being nervous and excited meeting famous athletes. I know I used to think it was pretty cool interviewing Iowa football coach Hayden Fry and basketball coach Lute Olsen while still a student reporter for the Daily Iowan. I remember being in awe of Sandy Koufax when I met him…
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Rocky Wirtz wasn’t in the room when his mother died and he didn’t need to be there when it was his father’s time. That just wasn’t him and it wasn’t Bill Wirtz either.   But it was Rocky, the eldest of Bill and Joan’s five children, who, after Bill passed away at 12:15 in the…
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I am trying to embrace change.    For example, the words above were the very first ones typed on my new non-Tribune laptop. For about an hour before that, I navigated the Internet for the first time on this foreign being, tried to locate all the cool new functions and yelled at my husband.  …
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Television can be a scary thing for the uninitiated. The red light goes on, I play with my hair just a second too long. The camera hones in, I look at the wrong one.   I trace it back to the first time I ever appeared on TV. It was on WGN. The year was…
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When you say things like, “I don’t understand Facebook,” you risk sounding ancient, un-hip, dumb — none of which looks good on a resume. That said, I don’t understand Facebook.   I signed up – well, ok, my daughter signed me up – for the same reason I do a lot of things, because someone…
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