I stayed up Wednesday night missing Red, watching TV, and playing computer solitaire while waiting to see if I had won $1 billion. The numbers were drawn, and what do you know, the 292 million to 1 odds did not shine in my favor.
I went back to missing Red, and I realized that I have already won the lottery once in this lifetime, so I shouldn’t be greedy.
Twenty-six years with this sweet, smart and compassionate woman are worth more than a billion dollars anyway.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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