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How to lose the news blues (and make the world a better place)
Evanston RoundTable, June 28, 2025 If you’re feeling seriously glum about the current tidal wave of bad news, little wonder. Daily headlines overwhelm us about war in Iran and Ukraine,
The year of living magically
Evanston RoundTable, June 11, 2025 “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life
The scourge of park litter
Evanston RoundTable, May 21, 2025 Taking advantage of the beautiful spring weather — sunny and sixtyish — on Earth Day Sunday, I made my first foray of the year to Butler
Heroes of Health Care
Evanston RoundTable, May 7, 2025 National Nurses Week is a good time to honor our hospital caregivers We couldn’t get by without nurses. They’ve been called “the superheroes of healthcare”
Stand by me
Evanston RoundTable, April 23, 2025 Three decades of making beautiful music — together. In the realm of celebrated teams — Dante and Beatrice, Mickey and Minnie, Michael and Scottie, Bonnie
The Beatles at Northwestern
Evanston RoundTable, April 9, 2025 The mop tops never played at Welsh-Ryan Arena or Dyche Stadium (as Ryan Field was known then). To my knowledge they never even visited our
The lesson of the soap dispenser
Evanston RoundTable, March 19, 2025 “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards,” said the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, and we know what he means. The
The world turned upside down
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 20, 2024 People didn’t notice at first. The steady tug of gravity has been with us so long — since the beginning of time, tens of billions
Turning 90, Jim Harper still shows his stuff on the pickleball court
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 6, 2025 As he embarks on his 10th decade, Jim Harper is still grateful he can get out on the McGaw YMCA pickleball court and have a