Under the spell of summer love
As soon as school let out in June, we walked 15 blocks each morning to Evergreen Aqua Park at 89th and Troy streets and walked home again at 6 p.m....
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Coming of age on Independence Day
I was fed up with freedom. Among the lucky seventh graders at St. Bernadette's selected to enter the American Legion essay contest, I was slogging through my fifth rewrite, the...
What dog people know
Hungarian researchers have found that dogs are like human infants in that they can interpret a person's intent from eye contact and other communication clues. —Paraphrased from Current Biology, Jan....
Healing the pain from Burr Oak
Our house sits near an official historic site on the Chippewa River in northwestern Wisconsin, where the Ojibwa once fought a bloody battle against a party of Lakota warriors traveling...
FIVE ON FIVE
Got change? We here at Five on Five reject all this change talk. We're about the same ol', same ol', meaning we still don't know what we're talking about. Brian...
Soldiers give meaning to Christmas
Christmas had become a tin ornament. Hollow. Once, it had been magical, but that was before my sister took me into the linen closet and spilled the beans about Santa...
Is Obama’s appeal only skin deep?
Communication experts postulate that an audience responds positively or negatively to a speaker, less on the basis of what he represents with his words and sentences than on the message...
Remembering a Valentine of long ago
Each Valentine's Day I think about lead paint. House paint containing lead was still legal and widely used when I was 5 years old. One Saturday I walked down to...
Is rhetoric endangering our troops?
A "hostage" is defined as an innocent person being exploited for nefarious purposes. A bank robber, for example, may take a hostage in order to expedite his dirty deed and...
Following one’s gut to self-centered health
I was simultaneously proud but resentful of President Bush when he celebrated his 60th birthday. I mean, I was encouraged to see our leader judged to be in perfect health,...