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Our friend Lori, who sat in for Joe Dredge on the WROK Morning Show while Joe was off on a medical leave, is pregnant. If you were to ask her, she'd probably say "Very pregnant." Lori and her husband Ryan will welcome their baby girl in just a couple of months. Lori's child will be born here in Illinois, as were my two, and it's likely that yours were, too. But, could we have picked a be

I'm not generally a nervous person. I wouldn't go so far as to call myself unflappable (there have been moments in my life when I've been highly flappable, to be honest), but I'm lucky enough not to suffer with much anxiety...although when my 16 year old got his driver's license, I was definitely biting my nails and cutting back on caffeine.

I've been an Alton Brown fan for years. I loved his "Good Eats" show on Food Network, in which he seamlessly combined science and cooking, along with a healthy dollop of laughs. I also enjoy how he tortures (all in fun, no waterboarding yet) the contestants on his current hit, "Cutthroat Kitchen...

I sometimes laugh a bit when someone complains about being caught in Rockford's rush hour. Not that it can't be a pain, but c'mon...you know that there are places so much worse, like Chicago and Milwaukee, both close enough that you could go see for yourself without having to go to New York, Houston, or the American grand-daddy of traffic jams, Los Angeles...

Off the top of your head, can you tell me, roughly, how many people there are in China? If you said "1.357 billion!!", congratulations. You've shown that you can Google and read something else at the same time. But seriously (said the guy who had to Google to get that number, too), with a billion-plus people in a country, you'd figure that it would be tough to be recognized as the worst

In the entire time I've been a smartphone owner, I've taken exactly two selfies. Two. That's it. I should also mention that I took them to send to my wife for her approval of my clothing choices when she wasn't around to critique me in person...