Mego: Best gift you can give dad is to live a good, honest life
What occupies the minds of most fathers is their hopes for their children. Although they never show it, many dads find raising a child a scary business. John Newton, who...
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Mego: Naperville carillon a mistake, but no choice now but to fix it
Naperville's Millennium Carillon should teach us some valuable lessons. The first is that exciting ideas are not necessarily good ideas. In fact, it can be argued the more exciting an...
Mego: Sunday’s kite fest one of Naperville’s most delightful events
Somewhere on the easternmost coast of China, perhaps 2,500 years ago, someone took a piece of silk and a few strips of bamboo and fashioned the world's first kite. Since...
Mego: Memorial Day a time for remembrance, reflection, optimism
This weekend is not just the unofficial start of summer, and a signal to clean out the grill. Monday is Memorial Day, the day to remember and honor all those...
Mego: Naperville needs to be first to embrace ‘Towel Day’
Naperville enjoys being the best town for this or that, and simply loves being the first town to do something. Well, I think I've identified something else we can be...
Mego: Sacrifices large and small a reminder to give mom her due this Mother’s Day
Bruce Robinson, a biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, was operating a robotic camera 4,000 feet below the surface of the ocean when he spotted a purple female...
Mego: Hats off to forest preserve district for raising mussels to clean river
I believe when somebody does something you think is good, you should say something about it. Too often, people only criticize, as though the only things worth discussing publicly are...
Mego: When it comes to pets, we have a choice – make the right one
Have you ever been locked up by strangers, frightened, confused, not knowing what you did wrong, missing the only home you have ever known, and rejected by the very people...
Mego: Earth started out as paradise, and our job’s to keep it that way
This is the week to celebrate the paradise most of us take for granted. Maybe your idea of paradise involves angels sitting on clouds strumming lyres, but for me it's...
Mego: Easter an odd combo of traditions with roots in religion, history
One hundred years ago, in 1917, Irving Berlin wrote a song called "Smile and Show Your Dimple." It wasn't until 1933, however, that the melody became popular as part of...