ALL CHALKBOARDS

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Saturday, September 20, 2025

September 20th, 2025

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  “Friendship shouldn’t be a battle.” That is the chalk today, and it is not just a throwaway line. Back in 1975, the band War dropped...
Friday, September 19, 2025

September 19th, 2025

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  Today is POW/MIA Recognition Day. We hang the flag, we salute, we nod. Steinbeck’s words, “You can only understand people if you feel t...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

September 18th, 2025

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     When you are a single father, you think about what you are going to leave behind. Not just in the bank, not just in the will, but in th...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

September 17th, 2025

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  When I was a kid in the ’70s, you couldn’t escape Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were.” It was everywhere, even in NFL Films highli...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

September 16th, 2025

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      The old Englishman said it clean: “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” Shakespeare dressed it up in iambic p...

September 15th, 2025

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  I came across today’s quote and thought about Newton’s cradle. Do you remember that device that might have been on the principal’s ...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

September 14th, 2025

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  I want to step away from the political viewpoints of the major event from last week. I am not asking my Liberal Chalkheads or my Conservat...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

September 13th, 2025

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     I was sitting on the balcony watching the sun drop behind the courtyard building across the street. The September heat finally loosenin...
Friday, September 12, 2025

September 12th, 2025

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     Life has a way of serving me a lesson in humility. A sign, an event, sometimes even a déjà vu. Something always shows up to put me in m...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

September 11, 2001: A Morning lost

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    I was thirty-five years old on September 11th, 2001. By then, I had been working in the bond room at the Chicago Board of Trade long eno...