95 Picadilly
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When you’re ultra-competitive and grow up in a sports family, it’s a habit hard to shake. Instantly, so many of your childhood memories come with a racquet or a bat in your hand, mentally and physically preparing to overcome an obstacle to best someone and come out on top. That’s one of the life lessons…
Read More95 Piccadilly – October 17th Issue
Twenty odd years ago, I was a member of a London-based literary society – a rather posh way of saying “book club” – whose most notable member was Elizabeth II, who often gave elaborately published editions as personal gifts. I didn’t even know the late queen was a member when I joined, but it quickly…
Read More95 Piccadilly – October 10, 2024 Issue
By Shane Gilreath When I was a teenager, there was a Julia Robert/Nick Nolte film called “I Love Trouble.” It was decidedly a rom-com about a former couple – Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett – turned rival Chicago newspaper reporters, who join forces on an investigation. While the romanticism of the industry popped off the…
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As we inevitably grow older, we often look back on our lives and the individual pieces that make up an entire puzzle. I often find myself astounded, gazing at decades since past, at both the lightning speed of time itself and the minutiae of things that have (and might have) been, the seams that quilt…
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Have you seen the Hulu documentary “Brats?” I have to say, I was disappointed, for as much as anything it seemed an addendum to modern society and its entitled woes. After seeing it over the weekend, I had little question about why, when the 2024 World Happiness Report was released, the United States had plummeted…
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Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, call 988 Emergency number, call 911 Asfp.org This week, I watched, for me, what was an emotional social media video about the Augment Program in my hometown, that, among other things, seeks to provide mental health services to students. In establishing it locally, Dr. Becky Blakley was inspired by losing a…
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There’s a bit of yearning involved when the familiar sights of summer begin visibly giving way to the rustle of autumn. It somehow makes us restless, deep in our souls, as the calendar begins to flip, page by page, from one season to the next. It is ever clear to me that I am not,…
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Famed Anglo-American writer and great proprietor of the emigre, Henry James, said, “it takes an endless amount of history to make for a little tradition.” This past weekend, I felt quite a bit of that course through my veins. For most, Labor Day remains a celebration of the American Dream and the ingenuity that it…
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Last year, Spencer Matthews released a documentary called “Finding Michael,” an in-depth investigation and search for the body of his brother, adventurer Michael Matthews, who fell to Mount Everest in 1999. As Spencer was a similar age to me when I, too, lost my elder brother, I understood well the pangs of loss and the…
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I’ve taken to listening to former ESPN anchor Sage Steele’s podcast, and over the weekend, I found myself engrossed in a June episode with guest Sharon Osbourne. It was an interesting turn that highlighted a major problem in modern society: cancellation. Both Steele and Osbourne have been very public victims of that epidemic, a global…
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