By Michael J. Brooks Special to The Tribune It was like Christmas all over again when I decided to reorganize my clothes closet. I found a warm jacket I’d forgotten about, and it’s been comf... Read more
By Michael J. Brooks Special to The Tribune It was a moment of levity on an altogether sad day. We buried a wonderful Christian man several months ago. His death was premature in our judgmen... Read more
By Michael J. Brooks Special to The Tribune Former Democratic National Committee interim chair, Donna Brazile, in her recent book wrote about Donald Duck, who followed the Trump campaign aro... Read more
By Michael J. Brooks Special to The Tribune Joe (not his real name) called me one day about a dozen years ago when he read in a collectors’ newsletter about a planned convention in Plains, G... Read more
By Michael J. Brooks A few years ago, good news-bad news jokes were popular. One had to do with the pilot announcing over the intercom: “My co-pilot is drunk, an engine it out and we have no... Read more
By Michael J. Brooks I’d not really planned on reading it, but the bookstore I was in last weekend had a special price on the new Hillary Clinton book, What Happened. I’ve found it hard to... Read more
By Michael J. Brooks King Solomon wrote, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver” (Proverbs 25:11). I think of many fitting words I’ve heard over the years. Ken gav... Read more