The Superior Express -

It’s been hard to find subjects for this week’s notebook entries. Most weeks when it comes time to write the piece to fill this space, I review what I have done in the past week and conversations I’ve had. Before his death eight years ago, a conversation with my father often sparked an idea.

In his retirement years, Dad had a daily coffee circuit and often shared tidbits of information he gained from the other coffee drinkers. Sometimes those tidbits led to newspaper stories, other times the tidbits directed our thoughts back to prior events Dad and I were involved in.

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