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Chicago Housing Market . Rosy Scenarios have Thorns
A few nights ago Jackson rewrote history in the magnificent manner that a five-year-old will, telling the story of how mommy and daddy fell in love on the beach. While we have shared more than a few beach front holidays with sand beneath out feet, our initial meeting was a bit more urbane with the [...]
Triple Tens on Marathon Sunday in Chicago
If ever there was a day to stop on a dime, today would be that day. Three of them in a row. Ten / ten / ten. A few years back, when the days lined up in a sequence of sevens, we traveled to Vegas. Like droves of others I figured that since numbers don’t [...]
A Fall Chill Beneath Blue Chicago Skies
Today Chicago. The boys and I returned home to Chicago Monday evening, an unfurling bit of ribbon that traced the sky from Dallas to Austin and from Austin home to Chicago. Jackson and Lucas won the admiration of surrounding single-flying adults for their big-boy behavior and smiled heartily in the momentary celebrity of praise. Nicole [...]
atop the ladder atop the box atop the earth in chicago
I thought of an old friend yesterday as we zipped through Rogers Park for a mid-evening jaunt to Best Buy last night. Jerry Riggs, the kid who could (or thought he could) concoct anything from nothing. You may know the type. Don’t go down to his basement for fear that the hodge-podge of wires with [...]
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. [...]
