It was a Donny and Marie Osmond wireless microphone that would connect to an AM radio and let me hear my voice coming from the speakers. There was one small package that was actually hidden back in the corner behind the tree, which turned out to be for me. They stole every present under the tree and a bunch of belongings from our house. When I was 7 years old we came home from Christmas Eve Midnight mass and found that someone had robbed our home. Wanted to be on the radio since I was 7 years old The new company offered me a position in Milwaukee where I worked for several years.įrom Milwaukee, I moved to Pittsburgh to work for K-Love before heading to Charleston, West Virginia, followed by a couple of years downstate in Springfield before heading west to Montana in 2018. In 2010 I moved to Rockford and was the afternoon show host and Program Director for 101QFL before the station was purchased by the K-Love and Air1 radio network.

Now I'm ready for what's coming in 2023, especially being just a short drive away from the Friendly Confines. Suffered through all of those moments.īut in 2016, all that pain went away. That was also my first memory of the Cubbies breaking my heart when Leon Durham had a ground ball go right through his legs that ultimately led to Chicago losing the series.

Growing up in Terre Haute, Indiana, we got cable TV in 1984 and besides hours watching MTV, I was hooked on WGN and the Chicago Cubs during that magical season for the boys in blue.

Summer in the country 1980 story