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Transitions – Adversity in youth 49 years later
Retirement gives people a chance to look up on old friends. Recently, one of my husband's Navy classmates found forty of us to unite in...
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Transitions – Winter costs, even fun is expensive
It’s easy to complain about winter. There is the uncertainty of the cold and whether school will be canceled. Throughout December, I was struck...
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Transitions – The day before Christmas Eve is Christmas Adam
…Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
– Proverbs: 27:10b
For many, the holiday season means the chance to...
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TRANSITIONS – BOB TALLON: IT WAS THE BEST JOB OF MY LIFE
I wonder how many of us can look back over our careers and say, “It was the best job of my life.”
Would such an...
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Transitions – MY MOM: CATHERINE MAGNOLA WALKER
One of life’s major transitions is when you become an orphan. Mine occurred last December when my 89-year-old mother passed. I never took for granted...
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Transitions – 23 and Me: A new wrinkle in family reunions
This year we had Roger’s mother's triennial reunion. Only one of her 10 siblings is still alive (she’s 104), but the multigenerational numbers are growing...
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Transitions – Our parks: treasures of the earth and sky
Life in Naperville is enhanced by 137 parks and facilities that promote exercise, fun, and mobility for children and adults.
Parks for use by the...
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Transitions – Naperville graduates face the world
Increasingly, high school and college students have never held paying jobs. This circumstance is more so in Naperville than the national average because students...
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Transitions – Remembering Tiananmen Square
Free concert at 4:40PM Sun., June 2 – Wentz Hall
Martin Luther King believed in achieving change through peaceful nonviolent means. Recently I became involved...
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Transitions – Military/Base Housing – Where renters have little choice
Naperville was named the top city for home owners in Illinois and ranked sixth in the nation. Even the 25 percent of renters in...
