Fall is a strange and harrowing time for me. My birthday is in fall, but I’ve never had a problem with my birthday except that one moment of panic I had when I turned 27 and couldn’t remember how old I was until I did the math. Football season is in the fall, which, given…
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I wonder if this happens to men, too. I wonder if they can report on stories without at some point filtering them through their perspective as parents. I can’t help it. When Patrick Kane said today that the worst part about his arrest a little more than a week ago, was his family seeing him…
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My husband Rick is, all in all, a good sport. He barely blinks when people call him by my father’s name, “Mr. Isaacson.” He knows to double the time I tell him I’ll be finished writing. And he hardly ever complains when he accompanies me to sporting events only to never actually attend the actual…
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I went on TV tonight and lied. OK, not really lied. But when Elizabeth Brackett asked me on Chicago Tonight if I was shocked when I heard that Chicago Blackhawks’ star Patrick Kane had been arrested after allegedly robbing and beating a 62-year-old cabdriver in an early morning dispute in Buffalo Sunday, I first babbled…
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Went to my high school reunion last night. Very interesting. A former classmate and friend who we will call “Tony” because that’s what we agreed his pretend name would be (his real name is Bob), accused me of going only to collect blog material. This is only partially true. I went hoping to collect blog…
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