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This I Know

Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 23, 2020 At every stage of life, it is useful to step back and tote up the “important things,” the life lessons we think we’ve learned. Even

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The Write Stuff

Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 29, 2020 “Words, words, words. I’m so sick of words,” sang Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. That seems truer than ever these days. The world is

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Winter is Hard

Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 1, 2020 So far the weather has been mild: no sustained snowfall, no frightening ice storms, no polar vortex. It is downright balmy for mid-December. But we

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The Golden Age

Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 18, 2019 In my column of Nov. 14 (“Goodbye to All That”) I argued that the vast changes and trends that have swept through our world in

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Goodbye to All That

Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 14, 2019 “When you come to the end of one time and the beginning of a new one, it’s a period of tremendous pain and turmoil.” –

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On Dying

Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 31, 2019 A high school classmate of mine, diagnosed with end-stage cancer, wrote that in his despair he went online searching for the best end-of-life joke. This

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