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Sprinklers and Sparklers and Freedom! Oh, My!
Long ago and far away, when metal feed-store thermometers dangled next to mops and buckets on the back stoop, heat indices weren’t yet in fashion. In those far-away times, summer began with mirages:...
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The Hungarian Uprising, 1956 ~ Erich Lessing, Magnum Photos On October 23, 1956, I celebrated my tenth birthday. There was cake, ice cream, and a small party with balloons and crepe paper streamers....
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Long before the advent of The Weather Channel, weather existed. Metal feed-store thermometers dangling next to mops and buckets on the back stoop recorded summer’s rising temperatures, while pools of...
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Sunset on the prairie After lying dormant for months, the familiar complaint rises again, grumbling across the land as the days shorten and nights grow cold. Repetitive and predictable as the season,...
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Detail from “Woman Before a Fish Bowl” ~ Henri Matisse (1922) Walgreens is an impulse shopper’s paradise. Established in 1901, after Charles R. Walgreen purchased the Chicago drugstore he’d served as...
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