Centennial column marks inning of sticky wickets

Originally published in the Toledo Blade | April 18, 1999

With this piece I log in my 100th column for The Blade. Even though I had written off and on for this paper for 20 years, it was in December, 1994, that I was offered the opportunity to write an opinion column on the op-ed page. Ever since I have climbed on my little soap box every other week to say whatever happens to be on my mind.

The topics I chose are not limited to a solitary theme or a single issue. Seasoned (and wise) writers choose one area and excel at it. Being a literary claustrophobic, I am unable to climb into a neat pigeon hole. For me life is much more than a one-dimensional cookie-cutter pattern.

An opinion column is just that: the opinion of one person. But this privilege or license also places responsibility where one has to tread a fine line between issues and personalities, between faith and the faithful, and between genuine patriotism and misplaced nationalism. Misunderstandings abound.

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