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The following pages are a series of police and family stories, some introspective, some just plain old cop war stories, some silly or whimsical and an occasional rant or two.

The original encouragement to set some of these to paper was from the pastor of our local parish. It was many years ago at the conclusion of a dinner in our home and we were relaxing in the living room over a glass of wine. Father enjoyed police stories, having come from a law enforcement family himself. After regaling him with a few tales he looked me in the eye and said, “You’re writing these down, aren’t you? You know, just for your family so years from now they can know what you were about.”

So I wrote a couple and the Chicago Tribune even published one, but then for some reason I stopped. But the increasing popularity of computers and word processing software made writing, revising and polishing a story even easier. With the advent of blogs, sharing became a practical option.

My plan is to publish at least two stories a month, targeting the 2nd and 4th Friday on the calendar for posting. Some will be family type memoirs under the Family Stories category. For a free subscription to this blog to receive notifications of new posts by email, signup at the right. No spam, I promise! Or follow me on Twitter (click above) for a tweet each time a new story is published.

Your comments are most appreciated. I try to answer each of them.

Thanks for reading… I hope you enjoy the stories.

Jim Padar
March 2011

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