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Dog on raw

By Cathy Silberman and Tiffani Beckman
Owners of Feed This, Inc!

From the Jan. 16, 2004 West County/Forestville Gazette

I will never forget the thrill and excitement of adopting my very first new puppy. She was six weeks old when I saw her and knew we were meant to be together. I was told she was a papered Yellow Lab. I didn’t care about the papers I just knew that I loved her. I grew up with pets, but this was my first dog that was my very own. She was beautiful; a handful of golden love.

My love/hate affair with cancer

By Paul Nickell

This cancer is threatening my life -- it’s terminal. I hate the pain, but it took me to some places inside myself that I like. I still hate cancer. I like where it took me.

I wrote a biography/summary of my life from my childhood to just recently. These writings were a sort of therapy for me, which helped me prepare for this leg of my journey. It was a time in my life where I got to know myself on a different level in the world. Had I not have taken the time to see this need, I could not be doing what I am doing now. I would not be handling it as well; facing death. I would not have found the realness or the love.

Cookbook collector: Barbeque'n With Bobby

By Fred Glynn

It was an odd time of night for Illinois Bell repair trucks to show up in front of the pair of flats at 2337 West Monroe on Chicago's West Side- -4:45 a.m. -- especially in a quiet, all-black residential neighborhood.

Odder still, because no lines had been reported "out-of-order" on this night, Thursday, December 4, 1969. But, instead of repairmen, over a dozen of Chicago's finest -- acting at the behest of Cook County State's Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan, himself acting in concert with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover -- jumped out of the trucks, armed with machine guns, shotguns, rifles, .357 magnums, and nightsticks.