Archive for January, 2012
If it looks too good to be true… you know the rest
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Every so often I get an inquiry from an online consumer trying to see a place that looks pretty good. Actually, it looks so good as to be too good to be true. Unfortunately for the inquirer places that look too good to be [...]
Snow on the Horizon (Unless it Doesn’t Come)
Puffy cheeked angels are hurling ever-damper spitballs earthbound as Chicago gears up for its first substantial snow of the season. Sitting in my North Shore perch, a Starbucks near my sons’ school, I ease from one task to the next, observing the gathering expression of wintry nature. From the voices weighing in on the radio [...]
