I won’t write long today because, frankly, I don’t have it in me. My heart and mind are elsewhere. You see, this week my big brother Neal passed away. A few days ago, he experienced some sudden dizziness and disorientation that, it turns out, were the result of a brain bleed that, had he lived, […]
By Brian McLane As most know, I spent much of my life in politics. It was, as I’ve said time and time again, a career I loved because it was so much like sports. There were two teams and two sides, and almost every time you introduced a piece of legislation, one side won while […]
By Brian McLane As Bonnie Raitt once sang, “Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.” Believe me, when you’ve spent the bulk of your days in a wheelchair, and now spend pretty much every waking moment secure in the knowledge that your body is slowly breaking down on you – a […]
By Brian McLane Ask anyone. I’ve long contended that at the center of my life are what I’ve long called the “three F’s:” faith, family and friends. Over the years, those three things – those three touchstones – have fueled just about everything I’ve ever done or dreamed about. That said, as I spent these […]
Neil Diamond 1970 As I’ve written a few times already, my little brother Terry is (and has always been) my best friend in the world. But this story’s not about my little brother. It’s about my three older ones, Kevin, Neal and Michael. And, I suppose it’s also about Most Holy Rosary, which long served […]