A casualty of war: creative genius
A few weeks back, I spent an enjoyable evening at the Ernest Hemingway Birthplace on Oak Park Avenue listening to Scott Schwar talk…
The more things stay the same
This summer, I replaced some rotting wood siding on my 1910 worker’s cottage. Finding an old newspaper in the wall was a…
CONSCIOUS AGING: Retire the idea of retirement
For generations, we’ve organized our lives around a familiar sequence: school, work, retire. We spend our youth preparing for adulthood, devote our…
My non-rational beliefs
Belief, for me, is a non-rational phenomenon. My rational side scoffs, but generally my non-rational and rational sides get along. They agree…
A zoning debate gone bananas
Oak Park’s zoning debate has lost its moorings. The fight over it has become the sorcerer’s apprentice scene from Fantasia: the brooms…
To have freedom, we have to give up some freedom
When I took classes in American history and political science, much time was devoted to discussing the maintenance of our freedom. I…
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