May is Mental Health Awareness Month. I don’t know if you were aware of that. If not, chances are mental health issues haven’t affected you,…
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Time doesn’t just fly; it’s supersonic. Unless it’s the last day of school, or you’re waiting for test results. Hard to believe it’s been 38…
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Some people have “Aha” moments. I tend to have “Oh, crap” moments. One such moment occurred in October 2021 as I was watching the news…
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OK, enough about how newspapers and other legitimate media are dying. Let’s get back to food: As I have mentioned, Kolorama, a party for Herald…
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Ah, election time. When television and radio ads for candidates compete with ED, nose-flushing and ambulance-chasing attorney commercials. A time when creative writing moves from…
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It seems like 1,000 years ago that I met Patrick Kane. Son Andy and I decided to buy the weekend pass for the inaugural Blackhawks…
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I was having breakfast with colleague Cindy Wojdyla Cain at Jitter’s last week. As often happens, we got talking about the “good old days” at…
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Sports fans, especially those around for a while in Chicago, know by now Bobby Hull died. He was an icon in Chicago during the 1960s,…
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I vividly recall my first trip to see Tammy’s folks in southern Minnesota. We had been dating just a couple months (and didn’t know yet…
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By Nick Reiher Liberal porn. That’s the cute name some have given to “The West Wing,” a show focused on the internal workings of a…
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