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Sunday, October 11, 2020

Flashback 2001: A bike messenger as thinker

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      I'm glad that EGD readers were as intrigued with Travis Hugh Culley as I was 20 years ago.  Thursday's introduction  led sever...
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Saturday, October 10, 2020

Texas notes: Island life

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         Austin bureau chief Caren Jeskey shifts her gaze to the Caribbean.       She was over a decade older than me and infinitely more fi...
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Friday, October 9, 2020

Nobelist Louise Glück’s poetry offers fierce beauty

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                                                  Hydra and Kali, by Damien Hirst      You know how they give out the Nobel Prize in literat...
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Thursday, October 8, 2020

Flashback 2000: Free sidewalk advice well worth the price

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Photo for the Chicago Sun-Times by John H. White      Travis Hugh Culley friended me on Facebook last week. And suddenly it was 2000 again, ...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Can’t explore a coral reef? Try a discount fabric store

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       One big benefit of never going anywhere is that when you finally do go somewhere, it’s really cool. I probably would have been happy...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Don't Fear the Reaper

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The line in Latin is Ecclesiastes, 12:1: " Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction comes."   ...
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Monday, October 5, 2020

Don't fight monsters by becoming them.

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       Most folks don’t proofread remarks tossed up on Facebook. But this was Nietzsche, and I didn’t want to get Nietzsche wrong, lest the ...
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