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Perfectly Good Advice
Evanston RoundTable, August 10, 2017 Some sayings are about as useful as the breath used to say them. (Including this one.) Not all, of course. Whether you call them sayings,
Jim Craig Keeps the Hogeye Tradition Going Strong
July 27, 2017, Evanston RoundTable It may not be clear what a hogeye is. Some say it’s a flat-bottomed riverboat, others the harpoon man on a whaling vessel. One thing
Interview Your Parents to Preserve Their Stories
July 27, 2017, Evanston RoundTable There is a big story out there that most people don’t know—a story that is exciting, mysterious, deeply important, and profoundly life-altering. That story is
Reporter’s Memoir Captures Dangerous, Illustrious Career
Evanston RoundTable, July 13, 2017 A great journalist has to be insatiably curious, passionately dedicated, and a terrific writer. Jeffrey Gettleman has all these talents in abundance, which is why
Ecclesiastes Got It Wrong
Evanston RoundTable, July 13, 2017 The Victorian writer George Saintsbury said Ecclesiastes was “the saddest and wisest book ever written.” Novelist Thomas Wolfe called it “the most powerful expression of
In Search of Lost Things
Evanston RoundTable, June 29, 2017 With apologies to Marcel Proust, this is not about madeleines or childhood memories. It is about losing things, things that inexplicably vanish when just a
The Mysteries of Existence
Evanston RoundTable, June 15, 2017 Modern science fools us into believing we can understand the world. Not so. Take mathematics, the supposed foundation of science and knowledge. Galileo thought “the
‘Relativity’: A Play Review
Evanston RoundTable, June 1, 2107 Albert Einstein advanced his two most famous theories, on special and general relativity, when he was a young man, and spent the rest of his
The Six Pillars
Evanston RoundTable, June 1, 2017 Evanston is Heavenston for most of us, the town where we love to live, work, play, and enjoy the many significant benefits and beauties the