I’ll be seeing you, just not every week. In June, when I wrote “Column writing through hell and high water,” I told readers I was taking a leave from writing for a few months . . .
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9/21/23
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Many of our institutions are failing us, and unless our faith in their competence and fairness is restored, I think we’re doomed.
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By John O'Connell
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9/1/22
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Things began to go sideways when the rain began, and we broke out the Monopoly set.
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8/4/22
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Most of us learned to read a long time ago, but many of us are learning to read all over again through the fog of Covid.
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7/28/22
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The late President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk whose words have haunted every president who has followed him.
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7/28/22
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The screams and cursing coming from the Oval Office on Dec. 18, 2020, were the soundtrack to an attempted coup.
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7/21/22
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Are you traveling for real, or from your laptop? So many of us, passionate about getting up and going, have been making do with travel brochures and virtual tours these past two-plus years.
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7/14/22
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The summer is well under way and, happily, it won't be long before the U.S. Congress goes home.
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7/14/22
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As the earth shifts underfoot, as the “givens” of our lives unravel and the standards for decent behavior soften, how do we stand our ground?
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7/7/22
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Have you ever fallen for a scam? In the old days, for which we can only feel nostalgia, there was the kind of sweet three-card Monte . . .
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6/9/22
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