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Sunday, December 15, 2024

Cheesecake: part of your healthy diet regimen

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    God save me from well-intentioned people.     I was sitting in a coffee shop, having an interesting conversation about investments, whe...
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Saturday, December 14, 2024

Bats left, signs right.

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    "Stanley Musial," by John Falter (1954)      The day before Thanksgiving we toured the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Muse...
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Friday, December 13, 2024

How much do you tip the guy who tries to rob you?

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     A cabbie tried to rob me Wednesday afternoon. At the cab stand outside Navy Pier. An inversion of the usual dynamic. Typically, it is t...
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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Scattered ash

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      We closed on our house in June, 2000, and a few days later a microburst blew apart the large tree off our bedroom. I did not, despite...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Play captures Royko the writer, misses Royko the man

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Newberry Library          The Royko play is back. At the Chopin Theatre until Dec. 22. Having maintained a manful silence during its first r...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Mailbag

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       Monday's mailbag of email was particularly heavy — metaphorically, of course — after my column on the murder of the CEO of Unite...
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Monday, December 9, 2024

We can't kill our way out of our healthcare woes.

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  "The Gates of Hell," Auguste Rodin (Rodin Museum, Philadelphia)      Last Wednesday, the same day UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Tho...
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