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Saturday, September 28, 2019

The Saturday Snapshot: High-tech park bench

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          I can't be everywhere, nor would I want to. Think of how tiring that would be and, besides, how would you dress?      But ...
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Friday, September 27, 2019

See how your excuses for treason stack up against the masters

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Judas kissing Christ surrounded by soldiers (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      Five columns—plus two days off to immerse myself in the ...
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Boys will be cats

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Gizmo, surveying his domain.         When former colleague Kara Spak mentioned a column where the boys were allowed to eat like cats, I...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

More wonders than space in the newspaper

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Sgt. Tony Valentn, left, and son Anthony.      If there is one comment my readers make most frequently — well, after some variant of “yo...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

A box full of darkness

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     "If you don't care about your writing," I tell aspiring writers, who, now that I think of it, I don't encounter mu...
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Monday, September 23, 2019

Rugby ‘makes football look for little babies’

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The Chicago Lions women's rugby team, in black, playing the Minnesota Valkyries.       The Rugby World Cup is being played right now...
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Sunday, September 22, 2019

When summer's end is nighing

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       School begins before summer ends. So we typically sigh for the end of summer during the last days of August, when we are urged to...
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