John Zdanowski:  

Greetings from the Heart of Illinois... I hope all of you are doing well!! I am living in Morton, Illinois with my wife of 24 years, Marge and our three daughters. Our oldest, Katie, is 19 and a Freshman at Illinois State University. She is a music education major, attending on a 4 year tuba scholarship of all things. Our middle daughter, Patti, is 16 and a junior at Morton High School. When we found out about Katie's tuba scholarship, Patti asked what that meant? We told her it means she can also go to college!! Our youngest daughter, Michelle, is 13 and in 8th grade at Blessed Sacrament School. She is at the awkward age, trying to be grownup with her sisters, but she is still a kid in many ways, playing video games and watching cartoon network with her neighborhood friends. We moved my Mom down to Morton in 1996. She has been doing well in a retirement center until she had a heart attack in 2002. Since then, she can't take care of herself very well and has been living in a Catholic nursing home about 35 miles north of me in Lacon, Illinois. The nuns who run the place are from Eastern Europe and are just crazy e...Expand for more