Fatherhood

Do you know the name of the first grocery store in Peoria that had scanners at checkout lanes, instead of cash registers where everything had to be rung up one at a time by hand? I know the name of the store because I worked there when I was in high school. The store was Randall’s Foods and it was located in the Westlake Shopping Center, across the street from Northwoods’ Mall.

About 15 years ago, I purchased a tape set that consisted of recordings of 4 different talks that were given by a Catholic priest on the topic of true devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.  During one of the talks, the priest explained a theory that he had heard from his brother-in-law about the different tendencies men and women are born with.  His brother-in-law was a psychiatrist and a devout Catholic who had been counseling married couples for over 25 years.

A few months ago in an article entitled Ambushed By My Cousin, I told you about how I promised a cousin of mine that I would write about what I thought parents should be doing to raise their boys into decent, honorable, and respectable Catholic men.  In the Ambushed article, I talked about the men on both sides of my parents’ families – the Williams men and the LaHood men.