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Sports metaphors are so common that I think we take them for granted. “It’s a slam dunk,” for example. However, I’m glad that life isn’t always like a…
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In my middle years, I confess to developing a vice.You’re probably thinking that I bought myself an expensive sports car or have started collecting…
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When we think of people who changed our lives, I think most view long-term events. But when I look back, I realize that a few people influenced my life…
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When I was in first grade, my music teacher called my mother to thank her for her gift and to praise my performance in the Christmas pageant. I never was…
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Lori Drummond-Cherniwchan is a teacher-librarian at Auburn High School in Rockford.She lived and taught in Kobe, Japan, for two years in the late 1980s,…
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Five years ago, my sister Dori died suddenly from a stroke. She and I rarely agreed on anything — she was a Cubs fan, I am a Sox fan. In the presidential…