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July 09, 2025
Hard lessons
I went to the beach the day after the Fourth of July.
June 18, 2025
Pope in a Sox hat
Regular readers of this column know that I am a Sox fan.
June 05, 2025
Get your hands dirty
I complain about being busy as much as the next person. It seems like we all do, like having too much to do is a badge of honor. Like not getting enough rest somehow makes us better people, instead of making us cranky, more susceptible to illness and resistant to learning new things.
May 21, 2025
Holding on and letting go
My children have a hard time letting go of things. I have the basement to prove it. There are boxes and boxes of hockey trophies, art supplies, sweatshirts that will never fit anyone in our family again, school projects from going on 20 years ago and books — so many books.
May 07, 2025
Do not be afraid
Somewhere, I have a picture I took of St. John Paul II. It was from his visit to Chicago in 1979, and I was standing at the south end of Lincoln Park across from the cardinal’s residence when I took it. I was 11 years old, there with my mother and brother and my aunt who lived a few blocks away.
April 24, 2025
Keep it going
During the lesser-known Holy Week ritual of planning for Easter eggs and Easter baskets, my husband showed off his purchases of chocolate bunnies and fruit punch-flavored Peeps.
April 10, 2025
Stuff and nonsense
Every time I leave a place, I take a moment to look around. It’s a habit I first developed when my children were small. We’d go out to breakfast, and when we got up to leave the table, I’d let my husband go ahead with the kids and I’d look over the table, searching among the empty plates and crumpled napkins for stray sippy cups, left-behind coloring books, baby blankets, mittens and hats. You name it, it got left behind.
March 19, 2025
Going back in time
I did something today I hadn’t done for maybe 20 years. I donated blood.
March 06, 2025
Giving thanks for what?
Our youngest daughter was a little disconcerted a couple of weeks ago when her high school musical finished its four-day run.
February 19, 2025
Coat closet
Like most Midwesterners I know, I have multiple winter coats. A wardrobe of coats, even.
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