- Nov 07, 2020
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- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
- Coffee Shops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
- Nov 07, 2020
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
- Everywhere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
- Doll
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barbie is just a doll.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
- Jealousy
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- Nov 07, 2020