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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Restaurant field notes: Mariscos San Pedro

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     The rain raised a question: should we stay home?       Actually, it was my wife who posed it, as dinnertime approached Sunday night an...
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Monday, March 16, 2026

One hundred years young, Shannon Rovers are newbies in the venerable story of bagpipes

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Danny Boyle (from left to right) Noreen Boyle, and Marty McAndrew.        The Shannon Rovers Irish Pipe Band are new to the bagpipe scene, b...
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Sunday, March 15, 2026

"Mister, your book ... your book ... your book ... saved my life."

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Tin man folk art (National Portrait Gallery)       As Artificial Intelligence blooms and social media spreads, filling every crevice of our ...
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Saturday, March 14, 2026

The wind

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Aboard the Resolute, 2019, Antarctic Chile      Man, the wind.      It's blowing now, as I write this, in the pre-dawn Friday darkness o...
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Friday, March 13, 2026

A man goes into a voting booth ...

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     Wednesday afternoon I voted, early, folding my partisan cheat sheet, jamming it in my pocket, and strolling out my front door, turning ...
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Thursday, March 12, 2026

"One hybrid mountain goat. One goat produced by a wild goat. One suckling goat..."

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       Monday was a gorgeous day to be downtown, and I gave myself extra time to walk across the Loop from Union Station to my interview on ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

With 2 Passover Seders, it helps to have 2 working wrists

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     Two days after Thanksgiving, my wife broke her wrist in two places. Slipping on ice in the parking lot of Sunset Foods. And no, she did...
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