Today is Thanksgiving, which – according to Wikipedia – is a “national holiday in Canada and the United States as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year.”

But what if the

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Today is Veterans Day (although I don’t understand why it isn’t Veterans’ Day) and I was curious about its origin.  Turns out it dates to the First World War that formally ended at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day

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We were sitting in the theater when Earl reminded me that two months from today is Christmas.  It’s not my favorite holiday, but the person I live with loves it. He wants the full-bore holiday ritual: church on Christmas Eve,

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Last week, the Cubs played hard to win their division and move on to the National League Championship series. Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, and Steve Goodman all watched from above. Hope returned to the hearts of Chicagoans.

But this week

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The first time Alice invited me to join her book club, I declined. She explained that one didn’t have to read the book to attend the meetings, and that seemed oxymoronic to me.  Why join a book club if you’re

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