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Education Week magazine is keeping a growing list of educators who have died due to COVID-19. If you want to have your heart broken today — regarding the bus drivers, lunch ladies, librarians, custodians and beloved teachers and school staff who have died of COVID — I suggest you look up the editorial in the Sept. 3, 2021 issue (“We Feel Your Grief”), written by Managing Editor Lesli A. Maxwell.
Plant the shrubs on 3-foot centers for quick cover of the bed and 18 to 24 inches in from the bed edges. It will be easy to prune the shrubs back as they overgrow the edges of the bed in subsequent years. When grown in full sun, it will have a good orange-red fall color. The fall color will be muted as shade levels increase. Though this plant is vigorous, it is not an invader.
My problem concerns my brother, “Jack,” who inevitably brings up topics that we do not agree with (he believes that COVID is just a mild flu, vaccines are not useful, the last election was stolen, the current president is stupid, climate change is a hoax, etc.).
After you spread an even layer of mulch around a tree or shrub, use your hands or a rake to pull the mulch away from the bark. That will make sure the mulch doesn’t trap moisture to encourage disease and decay and it won’t shelter nibbling animals. (Beth Botts/Morton Arboretum)
This does not speak to your wife’s treatment of you, which has hurt you. I agree that her lack of compassion is alarming, but I hope you understand that, for now, you likely did the right thing for your mother and those in her care by maintaining distance.
When your husband says that he is “trying to stop using,” but continues this behavior regardless, he is admitting that he has a problem. You don’t note how this cannabis use affects him, but if he believes he needs cannabis to treat his own maladies, perhaps he should consult with his own doctor.
You should seek legal advice, but based on my own research, when he gave you his credit card to use, he was actually violating his own agreement with the credit card company, which states that he is the owner of the card, and responsible for paying the balance. If he wanted to share the card, he should have added you as an “authorized user.”
Lefty Out There, an Arlington Heights native whose name is Franco Campanella, created a 70-foot-tall and 100-feet-wide mural with his trademark squiggles surrounding Matthew Hoffman’s famous “love” script. The black-and-white, six-story artwork covers the south wall of the @properties building at 806 N. Peoria St., just south of Goose Island.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson jokes with his physician, Dr. Leslie Rydberg, right, and physical therapist Talia Shapiro, center, as he is released from therapy at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab after recovering from COVID-19 on Sept. 22, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
Watering in fall can help protect evergreens such as these boxwoods from dying over the winter due to drought and cold. All plants, including trees, should be watered all through autumn, especially in a dry year such as this one. (Beth Botts/Morton Arboretum)