Evanston RoundTable, June 7, 2022 Like all good things, it’s here and then gone. Enjoy it while you can. But now it’s back, as if winter and summer have agreed, reluctantly,

Evanston RoundTable, May 24, 2022 Others have their heaven. This is mine. There is a phrase I recently heard that describes a plant about to die: going over. While I

Evanston RoundTable, May 12, 2022 Over the last 250 years there have been many musical geniuses, from Bach to McCartney. But none could do all the things he has done.

Evanston RoundTable, May 3, 2022 I remember spring. It was several Saturdays ago, blue sky, light breeze, in the 70s. I took myself to the wonderfully named Rocky Miller Park

Evanston RoundTable, April 20, 2022 I have been feeling grateful lately (see this recent column), especially about our home town, Evanston, and our nation. We moved from Skokie to our

As you drive, walk and bike through our fair city, be on the lookout for litter. Evanston RoundTable, April 6, 2022 Friday, April 22, is Earth Day and all of

Evanston RoundTable, March 30, 2022 Irwin Weil remains in close touch with his friends in Russia, and what he hears is gloomy. “Of course they can’t say it in so

Surgery can do that to you. It humbles and leaves you with more compassion for pain and suffering and the willingness – happiness even – to take pleasure in the common

Evanston RoundTable, March 9, 2022 I find myself of late drawn to 1940 movies that portray American life as busy, well-ordered and prosperous, films like “The Bishop’s Wife” and “Miracle