Essays

Creaking up and down the court

By |2013-11-27T15:46:38+00:00November 27th, 2013|

This essay originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune on October 2, 2013 I started playing basketball when I was 11-years-old. That’s more than half a century ago. I still play, [...]

Hope, baseball and A-Rod

By |2013-11-27T15:32:44+00:00November 27th, 2013|

This essay was originally published in the Chicago Tribune on August 7, 2013 I took my first baseman’s mitt to U.S. Cellular Field Monday night for the opening game of [...]

Who is a saint?

By |2013-07-05T09:10:54+00:00July 5th, 2013|

Pope John Paul and President Bill Clinton The recent fast-track beatification of Pope John Paul II has got me thinking about saints. Throughout its 2,000-year history, the Catholic Church [...]

An Easter meditation

By |2013-03-30T14:43:20+00:00March 30th, 2013|

Aunt Julia lived a counter-cultural life. That’s her in the 1985 photo above, walking on a wood plank over a small stream far up north in Minnesota. Hard to believe [...]

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