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Nobody said I'd be speaking!Just yesterday I was standing on a dais at Chicago's Union League Club, picking up the "Silver Feather Award" from the Illinois Woman's Press Association for kicking butt in the group's annual communications contest. I'd won this award once before, in 2008, which is when I first joined the organization. I expected the routine would be the same--a handshake and a hug,...

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In his play King Richard II, written in 1575, William Shakespeare had his fictional king set this procedure for trial: "Then call them into our presence - face to face, and frowning from brow to brow, ourselves will hear the accuser and the accused freely speak..." (Richard II, Act I, Scene I). At the time Shakespeare was writing his plays over 400 years ago, outrageous abuses were the daily...

Just about all of my classmates, Class of 1954, were born in the years 1935-1937. Several of us have commented on and I have mused about being alive for 75 years more or less, for three quarters of a century. That is a long time by anyone's reckoning. During those years we have been witness to many events and have experienced much in our lives. That started me wondering about what had happened...