Archives in Category: Special Events

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CURMUDGEON MONDAY – Football Fans

Posted on September 10, 2007

Okay, so it wasn’t a good weekend for the University of Notre Dame’s football team. It wasn’t a good weekend for the second weekend in a row either. And next weekend doesn’t look too promising.

But let’s remember that the

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Vignette

Posted on August 11, 2007

I pulled into the South Shore Health and Racquet Club this morning, intent on getting my daily dose of exercise out of the way as quickly as possible. As I climbed from my car, a cheery voice said, “Hi.”

I

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Today in History

Posted on August 8, 2007

There’s a daily column in the local newspaper called “Today in History,” which lists things that happened on today’s date in other years. For instance, on August 4, 1944, Anne Frank and her family were discovered, after hiding in a

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Parting Memory

Posted on June 27, 2007

I had thought I’d write about Nathan’s Hotdogs tonight as my parting memory from my recent visit to New York City. But just as I was sitting down to blog, Earl noted that there was a special on PBS acknowledging

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Father’s Day Musings

Posted on June 17, 2007

My ex-husband, Jeff, died two days ago and is being buried tomorrow. We would have been divorced fifteen years this coming August; and, truthfully, I haven’t spent much of the intervening time thinking about him.

I knew he was ill

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A Decade of Sunsets

Posted on June 14, 2007

Ten years ago I moved into an industrial loft in Chicago’s Fulton Market District. My unit faced north, and I spent many evenings on my balcony admiring the sunset to my west. That area was an industrial corridor unobstructed by

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Mother’s Day Gift

Posted on May 13, 2007

I’m often the first to complain about AT&T and its customer service. I whine that it takes forever to wend one’s way through the automated telephone system, when a telephone company is supposed to be all about communication. I moan

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Friday Night Date

Posted on April 13, 2007

Every Friday Earl and I go out to dinner. Sometimes it’s a casual place like Pauly’s in Benton Harbor; other times it’s more upscale like the Bistro at the Boulevard or Tosi’s. But wherever we land, we have a grand

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Birthday Approaching

Posted on April 7, 2007

Two months from today is my birthday. I’m quirky about that. I notice every month how far it is in days to the next birthday or how far it was from the last. Maybe it’s because birthdays are special in

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Good Friday

Posted on April 6, 2007

Today is Good Friday. In another time and place I would be spending the evening in church. That was when I attended St. Louis Cathedral Catholic School in St. Louis, Missouri, about fifty years ago.

Back then, I went to

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