Archives in Category: Things to Ponder

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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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Wrinkles

Posted on June 16, 2007

“You’ll never have to iron them,” the salesperson on the other end of the phone told Earl when he ordered some dress shirts recently. “They’re a special fabric,” Earl reported back to me. But I was skeptical.

Such clothing has

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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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Time Constraints

Posted on June 12, 2007

As a child, I often heard older people say how time flies. Yet, as I waited for school to be out on Friday afternoon, it seemed as if time passed incredibly slowly. Monday creeped into Tuesday, while Tuesday crawled into

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Casually Elegant

Posted on May 10, 2007

Today I heard a commercial on the radio for a restaurant that billed itself as “casually elegant.” It struck a wrong note.

I mean, either you are a casual restaurant or an elegant restaurant; but I do not believe you

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Duke and Rutgers

Posted on April 12, 2007

In March 2006, three members of the Duke University lacrosse team were arrested and accused of kidnapping and raping an exotic dancer. The three — Reade Seligman, Collin Finerty, and David Evans — steadfastly maintained their innocence through a storm

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Anna and Don

Posted on April 11, 2007

Anna Nicole Smith and Don Imus have both had their fifteen minutes of fame, maybe even more. They haven’t done much except lead trashy lives or believe than anyone else is fair game for insulting comments. Neither has made a

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Blogging

Posted on April 9, 2007

I started writing a blog to keep my mind and my fingers nimble, to maintain a facility with words I’d gained as a freelance writer of long standing. That was almost three years ago, when I quit the freelance world

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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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Music

Posted on March 23, 2007

You can’t take anything for granted in music; that’s what I’ve really learned after five years of piano lessons.

Case in point: I started working on a new piece today, a simple piece that takes only one page in my

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