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Friday, August 25, 2017

It's true: I am a tired old sports fan

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      Stress has become a huge part of my sports life.       It always was there, and people who know much about me know nervous energy -- ...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Blog reactions and this: "Some very fine people on both sides"

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      Don't often follow a blog piece with reactions to a previous one. This will be an exception.       One reason: I failed to includ...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Here is my red line ...

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      Marching in Charlottesville (nbcnews.com photo) My mother spent 25 years talking publicly -- and privately -- about the Holocaust, and...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Another Holocaust/book update: Mom's friend Hilde

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          Hilde Kratzenstein Meier, a Holocaust survivor who we knew as Hilde Cohen, rarely talked about her days in World War II.        T...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Part II: names, nicknames, more names

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      The name game continues, second day ...       The response on the nicknames blog was a good one, and so we go on. Because overnight d...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

What's in a (nick)name? Plenty!

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      This week I am on a nickname kick.      Stop and think about it -- nicknames are everywhere, all around us. They are with us every da...
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Nico Van Thyn
Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, came to the U.S. in 1956 at age 8, grew up in Shreveport, La., graduate of Woodlawn High School and Louisiana Tech University, sports writer/editor/copy editor for 45-plus years.
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