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Keep your offerings modest, and as an extra little nod to his new partner, you might send her a specialty from your home region: a piece of locally made pottery, or honey, syrup, or hot sauce. Let her know that you are looking forward to meeting her and the children.

Your less-rational mind is telling you that if you had been in closer touch, or perhaps been a better friend to him, then maybe the outcome would have been different. At the very least, you would have known about it sooner and perhaps chosen to keep in closer touch.

Perennial broadleaf weeds, such as dandelion, plantain, clover, violet and creeping Charlie that you may be seeing in your lawn now, can be effectively controlled in the fall from Sept. 1 to Nov. 15. October applications are typically optimal for the best results.

I did not react well. I don’t yell, but I said: “This topic is really not OK, and in the last year, you have not asked about my life a single time. You realize that your drinking has made it very hard for me to move on, right? Because all anyone wants to do is to go and get a drink, and now I can’t do that without having a panic attack.”

Pfleger eulogized Black on Friday at his small, but robust homegoing at Hyde Park’s First Unitarian Church, Black’s church since 1953. Timuel Black died Oct. 13 at age 102 after a short stay in hospice. Family, academics, historians, activists and local politicians, including Mayor Lori Lightfoot, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, were in attendance to honor Black’s service to the community and to the world.

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Mahesh Ramachandran, Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital chief medical officer, stands next to an ArmeoPower, a robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation of the arm, which he used during his recovery at the hospital following a stroke. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

On Wednesday, Jackie Spinner, an associate professor of journalism who sometimes writes about the media, including the Tribune, was bringing her toddler to see an exhibit of Pete Souza photos of President Barack Obama, allowed as a campus event open to the public. But the mom of three would not be able to, for example, take the boy to her office.

I agree with your therapist that your abuser – and her immediate family – will most likely never acknowledge her actions and how her actions hurt you. For them to do so would be for them to admit that their daughter (or sister) preyed on, manipulated, and hurt a child. And that she lied about it then, and is lying about it now.

“They are nature’s way of enriching the soil and recycling nutrients from one year to the next,” said Julie Janoski, Plant Clinic manager at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle. “They are a great source of organic matter, which improves the soil, they give plants protection from winter weather, and they don’t cost a dime.”