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Ed Channell

Ed Channell has served on many boards, foundations and fundraising campaigns during more than 50 years in Naperville—and he loves feedback. Give it to him at echannell1@gmail.com.

Ed’s Many Hats – 3×5 card rescues columnist

I live in Florida all winter, world headquarters of senior citizens. As a retiree, I'm starting to become very conscious about the way other old...

Ed’s Many Hats – Life’s highway

As I travel down life's highway people keep swerving into my lane. They cut me off, yell at me and give me middle-finger salutes....

Ed’s Many Hats – 78 RPM

How about the great news that vinyl records are back in vogue! I always knew they’d return. That's why I saved my Panasonic record...

Ed’s Many Hats – PN sometime

When I started writing this column in 2005, I had no clue what I was going to write. My first column even hacked off...

Ed’s Many Hats – Here I go again!

Snowbirds... On your mark... Get set... GO! Right on Hobson Road, right on Rt. 355, left on Rt. 80, right on Rt. 57, left at Carbondale onto Rt....

Ed’s Many Hats – Space available, perhaps

This column will be my 106th attempt at entertaining you with what little writing ability I have. Unfortunately, my pen is just about out of ink. Plus, I...

Ed’s Many Hats – Pass the spoon, please

I love small dinner parties with good friends. There are a few drawbacks though – You sometimes get seated next to folks you wouldn't normally choose and you're...

Ed’s Many Hats – Murphy’s Law

I don't know of anyone or anything that likes power outages—except Murphy, our cat. They can be one of the most inconvenient situations a household has to experience....

Ed’s Many Hats – Lessons learned from Poppie

Editor’s Note: For nearly ten years, columnist Ed Channell has challenged his PN editor to reject his monthly columns. For July, we did. In its place is a...

Ed’s Many Hats – More pet peeves

Back in 2007 when I was much younger, I wrote a column about things that bugged me: TSA personnel, time sensitive e-mails, body piercing, tattoos, soccer moms on cell...

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