Chicago Neighborhoods
Every Day a New Beginning (Mind, That Is)
Beginner’s mind. Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki brought this notion to full flower when he said – In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. For more than 10 years I have assisted buyers and seller in the Chicago and North Shore real estate markets with their real estate [...]
When Things Don’t Go According to Plan
It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. The map of life has more than a few detours that could so aptly be described. Whether it’s us looking at ourselves, at others or others at us, the prism through which we view distorts, distends and distinguishes. And sometimes it wasn’t supposed to happen that way. I [...]
A Cardinals’ Win and a Shift of How I View Things
Disappointment. Things don’t go the way you want them to. I’m not talking cataclysm, catastrophe or that which is colossal. I’m talking the more mundane. Like when you don’t get an invitation, or the pair of pants you wanted to wear are incontrovertibly in the laundry, the North Shore home you liked goes under contract [...]
Delayed Gratification and Seasoning the Soup . Selling a Chicago Home
A few weeks ago my five on a scale of five wife presented to me a radically wonderful birthday gift – the iPad 2. Oh wonder of wonders and miracles of miracles. Me gusta mucho and all of that. But even upon receiving this most honorable gift which I gleefully anticipated integrating into my savant [...]
A Bucktown Home that’s Not For Sale (Really)
Like many Chicago real estate brokers I am more often out and about than I am behind a desk. With the advent of mobile technology I spend most of my day on the road, meeting buyers and sellers, going online to market my listings and wearing a sandwich board in between that touts my impeccable [...]
