Connie Schultz
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My year of staying aliveJul 23, 2020 11:25 am - A few days ago, on July 21, I became one year older than my mother was when she died. For eight months, I worried about meeting this milestone. Then the coronavirus arri...
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Saving what we canJul 15, 2020 1:00 am - By Connie Schultz Before I sat down to write this column, I looked out our front window and found our hydrangeas in a state of despair. It's 91 degrees - a July cold sna...
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It's not a debate: wear a maskJul 05, 2020 1:00 am - If you're still opposed to wearing a face mask in public, this column is for Very Special You. I don't mean that sarcastically. One of us believes we're magically immune...
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Schultz: Discovering Mom, the essential workerJun 17, 2020 1:00 am - By Connie Schulz On the eve of my junior year in high school, my mother returned to the job she'd held before she became pregnant at age 19 with me and married my father...
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Annie Glenn, American heroMay 22, 2020 7:28 am - In 2012, Annie Glenn and I were doing what we so often did, which was to sit side-by-side in a quiet place offstage, waiting for our extroverted husbands to finish speak...
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After three years, who are we now?May 08, 2020 1:00 am - A week after Donald Trump was elected president, writer and scholar Sarah Kendzior, who had predicted in 2015 that he would win, wrote a public letter to the American pu...
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Sure, let's talk about the Vietnam WarMay 01, 2020 11:59 am - As many news organizations have noted, in just three months, the American death toll from the coronavirus has exceeded the number of Americans who were killed in the Vie...
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Haters, invisibility and a new normalApr 22, 2020 1:00 am - By Connie Schultz This morning, the first email that caught my eye had this in its subject line: World Class Hater. "Miss Schultz," it began. Oh, good. An angry man who ...
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Wear the face maskApr 10, 2020 1:00 am - In the last month, I've left our home in my car exactly once, to go to the drive-through window of our local pharmacy for a necessary prescription. On the way, I had to ...
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Oh, for arms that are six feet longApr 03, 2020 1:00 am - Earlier this week, our daughter Cait texted a photo capturing a moment of her juggling her job and her two young children at home. At first, I noticed only Cait's hand o...