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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Don’t dodge COVID only to get hit by guilt

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     Bill Mauldin was haunted by World War II.      Not in the usual way, by traumatic memories of horror and battle. At 122 pounds, Mauldin...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Royal unwelcome.

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Oedipus cursing his son, Polynices, by Henry Fuseli (National Gallery of Art)      Families can be hard on newcomers. And the media is often...
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Monday, March 8, 2021

COVID grief: ‘Did he know I loved him?’

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A piping plover.      He liked cats and bullfights, served in the Illinois National Guard during the Vietnam War and once ran a goat farm in...
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Sunday, March 7, 2021

Strange interlude 2013: Monopoly tokens born in Chicago

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    I pulled this up thinking to post it on World Monopoly Day, which is March 19, but doing my due diligence uncovered a rival National P...
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Saturday, March 6, 2021

Texas notes: Not All Who Wander Are Lost

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        It just occurred to me: if she is no longer in Texas, what will we call our Saturday report from Austin bureau chief Caren Jeskey? ...
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Friday, March 5, 2021

Not in a box, not aired by Fox, not here or there, not anywhere

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T.S. Eliot      The poetry of T.S. Eliot is just the right salve to grease the aging process. Snaking himself into the machinery of existenc...
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Thursday, March 4, 2021

Gradually then suddenly

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     My approach toward getting the COVID vaccine seems unique, or at least unusual.  It's one that I haven't heard any pundits expr...
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