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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

In today's English classes, kids often read just snippets of novels — and that's a shame

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     Confession: I never read “The Grapes of Wrath.” Until now, that is. Most people are forced to read it in high school. In Berea High Sch...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Jan. 6, 2021 + Five

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  Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (National Gallery of Art)      It isn...
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Monday, January 5, 2026

Edith Renfrow Smith, a 'memory keeper' and living link to history, dies at 111

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  Edith Renfrow Smith (photo for the Sun-Times by Ashlee Rezin)       In 2021, a former CPS teacher named Greg Lopatka asked me if I wanted ...
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Sunday, January 4, 2026

Insults, spoiled food and no bedding — inside a Chicago landscaper’s ordeal with ICE in Broadview

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  Rey Estrada and Liz Soto      “It was a little bit hard, the words they were saying...” began Rey Estrada, in Spanish, when asked about be...
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Saturday, January 3, 2026

Bob Dylan's 'unaccustomed subjunctive' case

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Bob Dylan at the Chicago Stadium, Jan. 3, 1974     The New Year made me think of my 2022 book, "Every Goddamn Day," with its 366 l...
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Friday, January 2, 2026

Honey Bear Bites

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      In the 25 years I've been coming to Sunset Foods, I've encountered lots of people promoting new food products. My heart goes o...
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Thursday, January 1, 2026

New Year's Day, 2026

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  Suburban Clock & Repair, Berea, Ohio       Thinking about New Year's Day and seeking inspiration, I looked at the past few years o...
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