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Category Archives: History
Light The Candles
Well, Dear Readers, it’s great to be back. I have been recuperating from a nasty little operation on my… none of your beeswax. My hideous internal abscess of March returned with a vengeance and surgical intervention was necessary to get … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holocaust Museum, Philanthropy
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Burns Notice
Tonight, on your local PBS television station, Part One of the documentary, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History debuts. This episode kicks off a seven night, fourteen hour exploration of the complex lives, times and relationships between three of our country’s … Continue reading
Posted in Documentary, History, Television
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Enough
No jokes, today. Our kids are dying. Let me state at the outset that I was a hand gun owner. When Nick and I moved out to Colorado in 1996, I decided to learn to target-shoot. I had a friend, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir
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Design For Living
The calendar says Spring and with the happy promise of warmer weather and fair sailing ahead, may I give you a suggestion about how to spend a wonderful Chicago afternoon? Last August I floated down the river in fine company. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, History, Memoir, pop culture
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She Loves You
I’m sure you all know by now that today, Sunday, February 9, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles’ first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. I saw it and for those of you who either missed it in 1964 or … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Music, pop culture
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Shiner
I woke up Monday morning and, as usual, checked in with Twitter. There, kind of sandwiched in between the flurry of the latest reports of Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s death by heroin overdose, were two small tweets with the news that … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, pop culture, Tributes
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Klara’s Riddle
Do you like riddles? I do. I like codes and puzzles and anagrams and acrostics- any kind of brain teaser. And one day, my housekeeper, Klara, told me a good one. Here it is… Klara is Polish. She was … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir
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Cover Girl
First a quick Superbowl Shout Out: Congratulations to John Elway, Peyton Manning and my adopted home team of the Denver Broncos on their victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday. Yeah! I wore orange all last Sunday. (It’s the … Continue reading
Posted in History, hobbies, Memoir, Movies, pop culture, Stamp collecting
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Out of Michigan
Author’s Note: This post is for my cousin, Raymond Saunders. Thanks, Ray, for putting it all together. With all due respect to Isaak Dinesen, my paternal great-grandparents had a farm- in Michigan. It was not a coffee plantation in Kenya- … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Tributes
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The Longest Day
In 1994 when my daughter Natasha was almost sixteen she wanted to study French in summer school- in France. So her school made the arrangements. For seven weeks she would live with a local family while she took classes en … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, pop culture, Tributes
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