Lifestyle Columns
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Constable: All the news not fit to print makes newsrooms specialAug 28, 2020 5:30 am - We are in an age where fear, hatred and violence drag us down as we struggle with trying to make a living, overcome a deadly pandemic, grapple with the results of climat...
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'Get Duked!' on Amazon Prime a rogue, brogue Scottish satire on class warfareAug 27, 2020 6:00 am - “Get Duked!” - ★ ★ ½ Back in the day, a blackly comical absurdist horror tale like “Get Duked!” would have been easily elected to serve a term or two on the midnig...
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A low-carb birthday celebration? Try crustless cheesecakeAug 26, 2020 6:00 am - I scream, you scream, we all scream for cheesecake? Of course, the end of that advertising slogan should be ice cream. My birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and since I...
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Turn your garden bounty into veggie 'fries'Aug 26, 2020 6:00 am - Many parents look for ways to incorporate more vegetables into their kids' diets. I'd wager that many adults also struggle to eat the recommended three cups daily. Baked...
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Sound check: Blues livestream, Square Roots Fest at home, SpaceCamp at BrauerAug 25, 2020 6:00 am - Streaming the blues BluesStream: A Chicago/Kalamazoo Blues Party packs 12 smoking blues artists from Chicago and Kalamazoo into one six-hour livestream presentation...
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Sandhill cranes show their ability to adapt to changeAug 24, 2020 6:00 am - “The ultimate value in these marshes is wildness, and the crane is wildness incarnate. But all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see ......
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Code compliance vs. common senseAug 23, 2020 6:00 am - Q: We were ready to close escrow on our home when the buyers' home inspector stirred up trouble over the roof repairs. The house is about 45 years old and has two layers...
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That 'toughest time of the year' came, and wentAug 22, 2020 7:00 am - It was once again that "time of year." I knew the time was approaching because one day, as I was otherwise working happily out in the yard feeding the birds and filling ...
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You can't 'overdo it' when learning good qualities from your parentsAug 22, 2020 7:00 am - Recently my dear sister, Mary, told me something that our mother said to her a couple years before she died. Mother said: "We raised you all to be independent, but maybe...
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Board members may not waive portion of their assessmentsAug 22, 2020 7:00 am - Q: We have difficulty in recruiting candidates for the board of our condominium association. To attract candidates, the board would like to either waive some portion of ...