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Christine FlowersChicago Tribune |
You know the old song lyrics “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am?” I’ve been hearing that on a loop in my inner ear over...
by Christine Flowers on November 4, 2024 Opinions are like an appendix: everyone has one, it serves no particular purpose, most of the time it's...
by Christine Flowers on October 29, 2024 About a month ago, I had lunch at a great diner in South Philly. My omelet was fantastic, oozing with cheese...
Kamala Harris is making the rounds to friendly media, which is what insecure politicians tend to do. She hasn’t ventured often into the areas where...
by Christine Flowers on October 21, 2024 After complaining that Kamala Harris had not gone into the lion's den of interviews, namely the Newsmaxes or...
by Christine Flowers on October 14, 2024 Kamala Harris is making the rounds to friendly media, which is what insecure politicians tend to do. She...
I am a white woman, who spent 80% of her life in the suburbs. I taught high school in the suburbs to young white girls who are now young white women...
I had so many ideas for this column. But every time I started to write, the sentences would fall flat. Fortunately, as I sat at the keyboard,...
by Christine Flowers on September 9, 2024 When the media started mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name, I have to admit I rolled my eyes more than once...
As I watched the Kennedy siblings close ranks against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. because of his support for Donald Trump, it reminded me of the fragility...
by Christine Flowers on August 26, 2024 Kamala Harris has been trying to connect with the little people, the ones in semi-flyover country who might be...
About a week ago, I attended a JD Vance rally. It had aspects of one of those rousing Trump “I’m Proud to Be An American” events. There were GOP...
A few years ago, when the U.S. Senate was considering the nomination of Jeff Sessions as attorney general under Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren started...
I am what JD Vance would have called a single cat lady. Actually, I don’t have, nor do I particularly like, cats. I am more along the lines of a...
One of the most famous phrases in history is one that my high school Latin teacher Sister Mary David intoned with deep solemnity as we were studying...
As I’ve done for every Fourth of July since the 1976 bicentennial, I settled down last week to watch my favorite patriotic movie: “1776.” The...
By the time I knew what the term “blue collar” meant, I wasn’t. I come from a long line of blue-collar people, proud Italians and Irish who were...
When I hear the phrase “mass deportation,” I envision scenes from Poland in the 1940s. I know a lot of Republicans who would be appalled at that...
I am not a journalist. I have never pretended to be a journalist. The reason? I don’t pretend to be unbiased. I don’t usually do my own original...
There is so much concern for the tender sensitivities of a former drug addict from Delaware. It’s incredibly touching how the media, and Biden...
I have never been married, nor do I have any children. I grew up around married people. I descend from a whole line of married people. I have friends...
by Christine Flowers on May 27, 2024 When Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivered his commencement address at Benedictine College earlier...
When Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivered his commencement address at Benedictine College earlier this month, the outrage was primarily...
It seems silly to write a column about the recent college protests. It’s not really news when privileged students who have never been in the line of...
by Christine Flowers on April 29, 2024 John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles In Courage," a series of essays that focused on...
John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles In Courage,” a series of essays that focused on eight senators throughout U.S....
Gloria Steinem turned 90 years old last month. She is the oldest living feminist from an era when this was a sign of being a “serious woman.” The...
I was born in Baltimore at the end of 1961. I was only in Charm City for the first months of my life, and was younger than a toddler when my mom and...
The other night, I took a friend out for her birthday at an upscale French restaurant. The food is magnificent, as authentic as anything I tasted when...
A few years ago, a bunch of people tried to erase the memory of Christopher Columbus. Actually, that’s not entirely true. What they really wanted to...
In 1978, I took the first of four driving exams. I failed them all. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that you cannot convince a Pa....
When Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro engaged in a legal battle with the Little Sisters of the Poor over their refusal to subsidize birth control for...
I try and avoid writing about Donald Trump, even though I voted for him twice. But sometimes you cannot avoid the elephant in the room, literally. As...
Last week the country marked another Valentine’s Day, a reminder I haven’t had a traditional “Valentine” since my fiancée and I broke up in...
I was looking for something to watch the other night, so I practically screamed “Free Movies!” into my remote, and up popped a suggestion I’d...
When you poke a hornet’s nest, you expect to get stung. If that hornet’s nest is filled with young girls in spangles and tutus — and their...
Schadenfreude is a fabulous word. It means deriving happiness from the pain of others or in literal terms, “joy from damage.” And it’s what I...
The other day, I was walking through the bookstore and ended up in the sports section. Perusing the football biographies but deftly avoiding anything...
There are two things that should be completely off limits: a person’s children and a person’s grief. You do not mock a child, something that we...
I’ve been watching with some interest the backlash to Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation. If you were to believe the media...
Regular readers weren’t surprised when I voted against John Fetterman in last year’s Senate race in Pennsylvania. I spent months, and ink,...
Around this time of year, I start seeing posts on social media about how Jesus was a refugee, an asylum seeker, an immigrant, etc. It’s based upon a...
I hated the MeToo movement. It angered me that women who had waited decades to accuse Bill Cosby of rape were believed as if they were the Oracles of...
On March 13, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected by the College of Cardinals to succeed Jozef Ratzinger as pope. Pope Francis was the...
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