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Real Life – Panorama
Not all the attractions at the Brookfield Zoo are alive.
For those of us who enjoy ruminating about the march of history, the forty life-like...
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Real Life – Searching for the light
In 2011, we had one of those years where you ask yourself if anything else can go wrong.
Perched on the precipice of a personal...
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Real Life – Digging In
Perhaps my sluggish mood improved because of the weather — a week of moderate summer temperatures with negligible humidity, blue skies dotted with puffy...
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Real Life – Chopin in the Afternoon
My interest in piano began at my father’s side.
Sitting next to Dad on the bench, I watched his fingers. Listened to him hum in...
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Real Life – When it rains
When my husband and I longed for peace, we retreated to what we called The Church of the Trees.
Camping was our refuge from the...
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Real Life – Report from home base
Time in a pandemic seems to stretch endlessly, yet disappears in the blink of an eye.
Our early days here in Florida were busy enough,...
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Real Life – Playing the Long Game
Maybe the nightmare of uncertainty will be over by the time you read this. Maybe we will have some answers, a vaccine, or mitigating...
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Real Life – Alma Mater Redux
My mother-in-law was an inveterate college reunion attendee. The renewal of friendships she described has inspired me to attend my own.
During child-raising years, intractable...
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Real Life – The Way Forward
After a rather rocky and protracted run of unfortunate occurrences during 2019, we were dealt a relatively minor, possibly symbolic, but nevertheless annoying finale....
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Real Life – Anew
The advent of a new decade!
Better than September, that month full of fresh pens and blank notebooks, a new decade arrives unblemished. It could...
