Single Family Homes
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 [...]
What is New? My Pneumonia for One and Two
One door closes, another opens. I’ve always loved the symmetry of those words and the belief they establish. My only admonition is don’t have your fingers inside either door jamb when those doors close. In one instance last week I didn’t take my fingers out. I had been off kilter with who-knows-what since the previous [...]
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. [...]
Taking Steps toward the top of the Chart
One of the things I enjoy doing is establishing an online imprint for my listings and my overall work. More than 8 in 10 people lace their running shoes to dash online to begin, continue and complete their search for a home. Just two days ago, days before my new single family rental listing hit [...]
