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December 16, 2009 03:02 PM EST --
"Where is Tunisia?" or " Why Tunisia?" These were the questions my daughter Pam and I frequently encountered last summer when we told people we would be traveling to Tunisia in mid October. It seems . . .
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November 26, 2009 07:15 PM EST --
Saturday, November 21, 2009. Lincolnshire, Illinois. 6:56 AM. I have just enough time before I have to leave for a nature hike class to do a few chores, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush my teeth, and . . .
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November 08, 2009 06:35 PM EST --
Across the sea, thousands of miles from the Atlantic shores of the United States in a cemetery near Tunis-Carthage, Tunisia, lie the graves of 2,841 American Military Dead. Buried at the 27-acre . . .
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October 13, 2009 10:01 PM EDT --
The sky was cloudy and threatened rain, the weather cool. Only three of us showed up for our fall Saturday morning hiking class. One fellow hiker had a plumbing emergency. The others were traveling. It . . .
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September 30, 2009 08:41 PM EDT --
Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) growing in the prairie at Chicago Botanic Garden, July 3, 2009
I ran across this photo of butterfly weed as I cleaned out my iPhoto . . .
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September 25, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
Make no Little Plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded . . .
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September 18, 2009 08:11 PM EDT --
In 1990, I attended Dr. Jean Houston's Mystery School in Greenkill, New York. I had been introduced to Houston's work in the mid 1980s while working on a Master's Degree at Mundelein College, now a part . . .
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September 14, 2009 08:42 PM EDT --
The advice, "Get it in writing," promises to make a promise we've received happen. But written words depend on the meanings we give them, and these meanings can be inconsistent because cultures and the . . .
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August 20, 2009 07:48 PM EDT --
Earlier this summer I listened to a CD iteration of a fascinating and intelligent novel, Censoring an Iranian Love Story , by Iranian author Shahriar Mandanipour. To increase the amount of "reading" . . .
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July 28, 2009 08:37 PM EDT --
Pam and I chortle as we watch the video monitors and listen to the commentator report the 1860 presidential campaign in 21st-century style. We are in the Campaign 1860 Gallery in The Abraham Lincoln Presidential . . .
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July 06, 2009 08:42 PM EDT --
Do you do any activities specifically designed to exercise your brain? By brain exercising, I don't mean our everyday normal use of our mind in thinking about and solving the situations that arise . . .
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April 23, 2009 07:41 PM EDT --
As we knelt to get a better look at the two kittens on the floor, one of them scrambled to the edge of a battered couch, looked us in the eyes, and meowed loudly. Only six-weeks-old, she had short, . . .
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April 06, 2009 07:49 PM EDT --
Earth Day 2009 is coming. When did Earth Day begin? Why have an Earth Day? The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970. It was led by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, coordinated . . .
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March 16, 2009 09:08 PM EDT --
Sitting on the hard pew, I was so drowsy I couldn't keep my eyes open or sit up straight. I was four going on five, and my mom and I were attending one of our church's Wednesday evening . . .
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March 02, 2009 07:02 PM EST --
The following poem, which relates an experience I had while jogging, is 20 years old this month. I wrote it a few days after an ice storm hit my area in March 1989. Doing vigorous exercise . . .
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February 19, 2009 03:34 PM EST --
In 1933, the United States was in the grip of the Great Depression. As part of the New Deal, on March 31 of that year, Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the Emergency Conservation . . .
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February 04, 2009 09:29 PM EST --
Donning green hard hats and bundled up against the bitterly cold January day, our group set off on a hard-hat tour of the Plant Conservation Science Center, currently under construction at the Chicago . . .
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January 06, 2009 06:28 PM EST --
I bridled as I listened to the moderator introduce the topic and panelists. I had ventured into the cold and snow of this first Thursday night in December to attend a panel discussion on Climate Change . . .
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December 24, 2008 12:27 PM EST --
Yesterday when I picked up my mail at the clubhouse of Sedgebrook Retirement Community where I live, I found a holiday greeting in my cubbyhole. It was from John, a second grader at Townline Elementary . . .
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November 22, 2008 02:20 PM EST --
Under Julius Caesar, the Romans first invaded Britain in 55 B.C.E. Over the next 475 years as they fought, interacted and lived in Britain, they left a strong imprint on the landscape and culture . . .
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