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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Anything is possible.

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Traverse City, Michigan — July 14, 2024        When I heard news of the shooting of Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon, my first thought was...
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Monday, July 15, 2024

"The feeling we had come home"

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     Northern Michigan is Hemingway country. Paris and Spain and Cuba came later. Here is the motherlode for early Hemingway, the Nick Adams...
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Sunday, July 14, 2024

Wedding flashback #3 — 2011: Peasants and princes marry for one reason

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Prince William and Kate Middleton on their wedding day       My older son got married Saturday afternoon, in a lovely waterside ceremony. Me...
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Saturday, July 13, 2024

Wedding flashback #2 — 2010: Plan for a perfect wedding then wait for the problems

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Group Portrait: A Wedding Celebration, by Gillis van Tilborgh (Metropolitan Museum of Art)       My boy is getting married today, meaning th...
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Friday, July 12, 2024

Wedding flashback #1 — 2010: Marriage bigotry an old pastime

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         My older son is getting married this weekend. Lots to do. So I hope you will forgive me if I shirk my EGD duties for the next few d...
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Thursday, July 11, 2024

Talk about anxiety

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  "The Scream," by Edvard Munch      Anxiety. The fight-or-flight instinct hardwired into our brains by 100,000 years of evolution...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

'Enjoy just being here' — At almost 110, she's still baking pie, with a little help

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Photo for the Sun-Times by Ashlee Rezin      Edith Renfrow Smith is baking a sour cherry pie.      "I just love sour cherry," she...
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