Edgewater
Less Two Wheels . Two Wheels Balance
It happened yesterday. Jackson asked to ride another kid’s bike at “The Choo Choo Train Park.”
And sure enough, with a little boost he continued on his merry two-wheeled path. It wasn’t a trek across the Pyrenees but it was the start of what likely will be a lifelong love affair of the bipedal variety.
On the [...]
Which Way Points the Thumb?
The president just flew over my Edgewater home.
The roar of his chopper and his flying armada filled the sky for minutes prior to his arrival above, filling my chest with a sense of imminence. And then they appeared, majestic and aloft, somewhat staggered in their flight plan, immediately overhead and slowly making their way east [...]
A Drop in Temperature in Chicago
Refuge was granted today.
After an endless series of scratches etched on a stray board  to suggest days where the heat simply suffocated today ambled in at a delightful sub 90.
Blessed relief.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a hot day naysayer. I revel in the glisten that gathers from the slightest activity. But…
But the toaster [...]
and so goes the wind does the power as well
when the power goes off and phone calls enter an automated matrix that hangs up over and over you gain a true sense of powerlessness. and so is the case after the power went off after a second round of storms swept through chicago last night and power remains off today.
the tick tick tick of the second hand sweeps toward tomorrow
hurry up and wait! that’s what most closings are like these days as wire transfers don’t and underwriters stall and mortgage brokers aren’t at the closing table and buyers wait to close. and so it goes.
