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  • Ciao Baby I recall a certain dinner guest who lingered on after all the rest A guest we feared would never leave Whose departure led none of us to grieve With that in mind here’s my farewell As I listen for my final bell What will nature do with this old man I suppose she’ll…

  • Buck’s Miracle       I knew that Buck has been an undergraduate at Northwestern and I knew where Northwestern was and even a bit about its appearance. I knew those things because when we lived in Chicago we’d driven past NU along Sheridan Road as it bordered Lake Michigan northward passing within a block of our…

  • Up the Creek       Backing up a bit, in my third year of graduate study I found that I was in the wrong program. It was too late to start over, to meet the requirements of the Psychology Department for my Ph.D. there and it was too late to repair the damage to my relationship…