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Six weeks ago my oldest daughter had a baby making me and my wife grandparents for the first time!   My wife and I were overjoyed and made arrangements to visit her, her husband, and the baby (Really we only wanted to see the baby.   I'm told that's how it is when you become a grandparent!)   They live in Indiana and to make the most of our time we decided to fly up for a few days.   They live in Fort Wayne and our flight made a transfer in Chicago. We boarded our flight in Dallas bubbling over with excitement only to be discouraged when the pilot came over the intercom and informed us that our flight would be delayed because of some technical issues in Chicago.   Usually that's not a big deal, but on this flight we had only a brief layover and now were in fear of missing our connecting flight.   We finally took off and calculated that there was a slim chance we could make the next flight, so upon landing we rushed out of the plane, located ...

It’s homecoming for Denison High School this weekend and being a parent of a couple of DHS students I’m experiencing some of the pageantry of the event. Thursday was the Homecoming parade right down the middle of Main Street. It featured the homecoming queen nominees, club sweethearts, the band, football team, cheerleaders, drill team, color guard, and hundreds of adoring parents, grandparents, citizens, and friends. All of that was great but what really caught my imagination in the parade were the echoes from the past, in particular the trailer carrying the 1984 State Champion football team.   They're all looking good, but you would have no trouble distinguishing them from the current team thirty years their junior.   Suddenly my mind shifted into fast forward imagining all the young, energetic young men and women who had passed my way decades from now returning to the parade as “echoes from the past.” Ask anyone from the class of 1984 and they’ll all agree...