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Aquinas wired

I’m Jerry Partacz, happily married to my wife Julie for over 40 years. I have four children and eleven grandchildren. I’m enjoying retirement after 38 years of teaching. I now have an opportunity to share my thoughts on many things. I’m an incurable optimist. I also love to solve crossword puzzles and to write light verse. I love to read, to garden, to play the piano, to collect stamps and coins, and to watch “Curb Your Enthusiasm”.

Recent posts

• Puzzling over the pandemic and its role in life »

  Aquinas wired on The Quark In The Road
  Posted today at 2:57 pm

• Long before the arrival of the Co-vid vaccine, I may begin to look like that Harry Potter character, Hagrid »

  Aquinas wired on The Quark In The Road
  Posted Friday at 1:24 pm

• What my mother taught me that Trump never learned »

  Aquinas wired on The Quark In The Road
  Posted Thursday at 10:58 am

• Trump’s version of liberation theology »

  Aquinas wired on The Quark In The Road
  Posted April 18, 2020 at 1:59 pm

• Spring in my garden is an antidote to the pandemic blues »

  Aquinas wired on The Quark In The Road
  Posted April 16, 2020 at 11:31 am

Latest on ChicagoNow

• Chicago Isolation Beer Week, April 27-30

  from The Beeronaut by Mark McDermott
  posted today at 11:08 pm

• Now’s your chance: Make exercise a staple of your lifestyle, and own it

  from All is Well by twin
  posted today at 8:01 pm

• Illinois State’s Robinson goes undrafted, will sign as a free agent

  from Prairie State Pigskin by Dan Verdun
  posted today at 6:10 pm

• LOOK Around US/ Some were Faceless/ Heroes have SUDDENLY emerged/ While we may be Bored THEY SERVE.

  from JUST SAYIN by BOB ANGONE
  posted today at 5:44 pm

• Puzzling over the pandemic and its role in life

  from The Quark In The Road by Aquinas wired
  posted today at 2:57 pm

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