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For COVID-19 Heroes, Pandemic Takes a Big Toll
We can’t thank these front-line hospital workers enough. All we can do is bear witness to their heroism, courage, and skills. Evanston RoundTable, March 4, 2021 Mary Elizabeth McDonough dreams
My Long-lost Pipes
Storied Stuff, Facebook, March 5, 2021 Lately I’ve taken up pipe smoking again. It’s a comforting habit, sitting at one’s keyboard gripping a pipe stem with satisfying resolve and expelling
The Age of Hybrid
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 17, 2021 Change happens slowly, then all at once, Hemingway wrote in “The Sun Also Rises.” Take the National Health Service in Great Britain. Free nationwide health
Writing Your Life Story
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 3, 2021 Many years ago a colleague of mine mentioned that his mother had an interesting saying: you should always have more to look forward to than
Happiness
Sometimes life obligingly puts obstacles in our way. And sometime we have to create them in order to live up to our fullest potential. Evanston Round Table, Jan. 20, 2021
Lucky
Luck has given me a passport to enjoy life, which I have been lucky enough to use to the fullest. Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 6, 2021 On New Year’s Eve I
The Essence of You
We chip away daily to reveal and release the masterpiece within us. Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 23, 2020 Every person is unique, like a snowflake, a fingerprint, the ever- and infinitely
My Love Affair With the Press
Is there anything more important to a democracy than a vigorous, free, and fair press? Jefferson didn’t think so. Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 9, 2020 What was it Jefferson said about
Reverse Entropy
All activities in modern society are destined for greater inconvenience, complexity and cost. Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 27, 2020 Infirmity is so revealing. The human condition is informed by it, a