While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south suburban Chicago man was “touching” the sun. Traveling at “a blazing 430,000 miles per hour,” according to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to reach the outer corona of the sun. If only its namesake, Eugene Parker, had lived to celebrate it.
Letters to the editor submitted to The Courier-News.
It is better to hurt like hell because someone is gone than to never have known the joy that came from loving them.
It’s not ususual that the pressures of the world and life can suck away the positive feelings we want to be experiencing during the holidays. A little self-care and analysis can help a lot to counter the negativity and depression, two experts say.
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When the Trivial Pursuit game was brought out on Christmas Eve at columnist Donna Vickroy’s house, the family competition could be downright cutthroat.
As “Wizard of Oz” excitement gears up with the film release of “Wicked,” not many know the connections the story and its author L. Frank Baum have to Chicago.
Birds are not only beautiful to look at but far more clever than we give them credit for when it comes to communicating about food and danger and staying warm.
Life throws us difficult, seemingly impossible challenges, but it also provides others who are ready to help us get through it. And once you do, you will carry in your heart for the rest of your life the knowledge that you can do hard things.
An election should pique your interest, raise concerns, propose opportunity, inspire a hopeful “what-if” kind of thinking. It shouldn’t make you feel like a cat on a hot tin roof.