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Coronavirus lessons our milk-allergic son taught us nearly three decades ago

Washing my hands dozens of times a day and using gobs of Wet Wipes daily reminds me of the training we got over nearly two decades in…

Mar 19, 2020

Mar 19, 2020

SB Anderson

Birthday, Christmas and the Sunset of a Generation

Yesterday, I marked another birthday and wondered again, as I have for years, why the person who was brought into the world on a certain…

Dec 24, 2019

Birthday, Christmas and the Sunset of a Generation

Dec 24, 2019

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LESSONS OF THE LEAVES

Outside now in late October, the leaves are outrageous, facing certain death, they flip the bird with blinding, stunning colors and spend…

Oct 25, 2019

LESSONS OF THE LEAVES

Oct 25, 2019

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TREE

Watching (for the nth time) Springsteen on Broadway on Netflix today and the closing soliloquy from Bruce reminded me of this amazing tree…

Aug 20, 2019

TREE

Aug 20, 2019

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‘Blood of our blood, crying from the ground’

Blood on the streets

Aug 4, 2019

Aug 4, 2019

SB Anderson

Family dinner in Miami

Two old uncles are at the center of the dinner table. One of them looks tired and disengaged and doesn’t seem to want to be there, and…

Jun 28, 2019

Jun 28, 2019

SB Anderson

The non-evil side of Facebook

For all of its flaws, toxicity and sinister things it enables — and heaven knows, there are many, many — I still remain something of a…

Jun 22, 2019

Jun 22, 2019

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The flower child

This is my toddler grandfather Russell W. Anderson, circa 1905, being something of a flower child in the yard at the family home along the…

Jun 14, 2019

The flower child

Jun 14, 2019

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DuPage turning the page as GOP bastion

The county in which we live — DuPage, IL, just west of Chicago — was one of the strongest, most storied GOP suburban bastions in the…

Nov 4, 2018

DuPage turning the page as GOP bastion

Nov 4, 2018

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The son’s family also rises

“Play!,” our young granddaughter commanded this morning, grabbing my hand and tugging. And I obediently (and gladly) followed into the play…

Aug 1, 2018

The son’s family also rises

Aug 1, 2018

SB Anderson

SB Anderson

Journalist; Tribune Co. veteran; recently retired Medill assistant professor and managing editor, Medill News Service and Medill Reports Chicago. Semper Gumby.

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