“This is reality, Greg.” E.T. can’t just beam up to his ship. The 40 pounds won’t just melt off. My books and songs won’t fly off the shelves — “If you build it, they will come” only works in that other movie. A sick dog won’t heal herself. I have to do the work.
Ready, set, go.
Hello? Off your duff. Ready, set, go. Jumping jacks — ready, begin. OK, maybe not jumping jacks. But move. Now.
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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