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Monday, January 31, 2022
Chicago is a fine place and worth saving
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There's a back story to today's headline. I recently read Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," which co...
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
'Good places for a pipefitter to work'
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Sometimes I give the impression that my mail is one raging septic river of abuse—probably because there is something empowering about...
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Saturday, January 29, 2022
Notes: Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. (Rumi)
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It's odd to see yourself reflected in your friends. Like Caren, I subscribe to the New York Times and the Sun-Times, and like her,...
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Friday, January 28, 2022
Chicago’s candy crown slips with Mars exit
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Jelly beans grow like pearls, around a grain of sugar instead of sand, while tumbling in drums that look like cement mixers. I kno...
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
I hope your mother is okay.
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I try to be the person I wish other people were. But it doesn't always work. Sometimes it seems to never work. F...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2022
‘Half the way to rehabilitation’
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There is a poem by Robert Lowell, “Epilogue,” where something has gone wrong with his writing. “Those blessèd structures, plot and...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
"Jesus of Western Avenue"
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What is art? I used to have a little pat definition I liked to trot out: that art is something extraordinary in execution, concept, or ...
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