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June 01, 2011 08:57 PM UTC --
Returning home after visiting an aviary with my daughter Pam, my son Dave and Dave’s girlfriend during the Memorial Day weekend, I was surprised to learn that in 1993, the U.S. Congress designated . . .
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May 12, 2011 04:04 PM UTC --
Forward
With the exception of the first photo, this post contains 23 photos taken while our tour group cruised the Nile River from Aswan to Luxor on the Royal Lotus river cruise . . .
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May 01, 2011 01:12 PM UTC --
When I was a young daughter
Every spring when I was young, the women of the church my family attended held a Mother-Daughter banquet. Attending it with my mother was one of the . . .
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April 22, 2011 06:07 PM UTC --
As my daughter Pam and I leave our Aswan hotel room and head toward the hotel’s dining room for breakfast, we encounter a black-and-white kitten in the hallway. The kitten meows and hurries to . . .
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April 11, 2011 10:50 AM UTC --
It was Monday, July 6, 1959. I had graduated from college only four weeks earlier and in the weeks since then, every day had brought a new experience. I had been a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding . . .
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March 24, 2011 05:42 PM UTC --
I’m sitting in seat 27H on EgyptAir as the plane takes off from Cairo heading south for Aswan in Upper Egypt. My daughter Pam, my son Dave, and my son’s girlfriend, and I are on our second . . .
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February 25, 2011 02:37 PM UTC --
Foreword
As you likely know, on January 25, 2011, Egyptian protesters began demonstrations to unseat Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, and his government and they succeeded in getting his . . .
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February 06, 2011 01:32 PM UTC --
When my children were young, as was usual at the time, I was a stay-at-home mom. Needing outlets to express a budding creativity, I poured myself into what was near at hand: making the food I cooked . . .
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February 02, 2011 06:04 PM UTC --
It’s February 1, 2011. Skies are gray, and I can hear the wind howling through the windows of my apartment. For several days now, the Chicago area has been receiving warnings of an impending enormous . . .
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January 30, 2011 04:04 PM UTC --
According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of the Rabbit begins February 3, 2011. Although not familiar with Chinese culture, I like Chinese food and I patronize Chinese restaurants a lot because unlike . . .
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January 22, 2011 08:13 PM UTC --
Despite leaving the Chicago and Frankfort, Germany, airports later than scheduled, our plane arrives in Cairo on time. We have no trouble deplaning, going through customs, . . .
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December 04, 2010 04:21 AM UTC --
Increasingly, few recreational activities, including many publicly funded natural areas, are free anymore. But Starved Rock State Park, about 90 miles southwest of Chicago on the south . . .
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October 30, 2010 04:20 PM UTC --
What will the day be like?
Sunrise on October 3, 2010 at 5:51AM. Through the bay window of my apartment four levels above the ground, a mix of blue, violet, and orange frame . . .
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October 27, 2010 04:07 PM UTC --
Life evolves. It evolves not only at the biological level through genes that we can’t see with our naked eyes, but also at the cultural level through memes, which we experience. . . .
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September 16, 2010 01:53 PM UTC --
“I knew I wasn’t in Illinois any more when driving here from Tulsa I saw an armadillo road kill,” I quipped as I began my talk. It was November 9, 1995, and I was addressing . . .
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September 04, 2010 04:16 PM UTC --
As a septuagenarian, my memory spans about 70 years of living, working, learning, and playing in the Midwest. I can remember the first time I became aware of new happenings in our culture that today . . .
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August 23, 2010 11:41 AM UTC --
As the tram approaches the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Rice Plant Science Center on this late June afternoon, the Center seems quiet, almost inactive. But in addition to the work scientists are doing . . .
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August 09, 2010 07:42 PM UTC --
Sleep Dream May 26, 1984
During May 1984, I was finishing my first year of working on a master’s degree in liberal studies at Mundelein College, now a part of Loyola University in . . .
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July 17, 2010 05:30 PM UTC --
If picturesque towns could be considered theme parks, I would nominate the village of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia to be first on any list of such places. In retaining the architecture and character . . .
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July 05, 2010 04:35 PM UTC --
If you’ve traveled to Rome, you likely visited and marveled at the Roman Coliseum, the huge amphitheater where gladiators fought wild animals and where Christian martyrs are thought to have died. . . .
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