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Monday, January 13, 2025

COVID, five years on: memories of a strange and scary time

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     When did COVID start for you? Personally, I trace the beginning to Feb. 13, 2020. My wife and I were waiting for a plane at O'Hare ...
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Sunday, January 12, 2025

Flashback 1999: Devastation of home lights fire under couple

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       So what happens once the fires are finally out? To the thousands and thousands of people whose homes were destroyed in the Los Angele...
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Saturday, January 11, 2025

Fresh-squeezed orange juice

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         Few sounds are as welcome as a juicer. That pulpy grinding noise, and liquid whir. I'm not awash in golden childhood memories, ...
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Friday, January 10, 2025

Los Angeles is burning — or is it?

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"Oranges on Fire," by Larry Sultan (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)      "What is truth?" Pontius Pilate asks the crow...
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Thursday, January 9, 2025

We're lucky he doesn't want to name it the "Gulf of Trump"

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Loteria cards (National Museum of Mexican Art)       Was I wrong to feel a flash of optimism upon hearing Trump announce he wants to change ...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Inauguration Day is coming and I haven't a thing to wear

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       A colleague once found himself committed to the locked alcoholism ward at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. Though we...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2025

"A sense of closeness and carefree happiness"

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      Monday's column on media maven Robert Feder — the man who urged me to join Twitter a decade and a half ago — getting tossed off F...
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