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Happy Birthday Nicole (my lovely and beloved wife)
April 22nd. Earth Day for the past several decades. And birthday as well for Nicole, my lovely and beloved wife. Before meeting Nicole my demeanor toward such days as this was cavalier and dismissive. Likely it stemmed from the sentiments of my kin, those southsiders known as the McCareys for whom birthdays were just another [...]
Peeking at Spring in Chicago with Tom McCarey (and Trusted Resources)
As I selected the outfits my sons would don today I mused back to the tail-end of my childhood when “Garanimals” were introduced. Garanimals, for those not in the know, was and is a children’s clothing line providing tops and bottoms each emblazoned with animal tags designed to make matching little one’s outfits a bit [...]
Single Digits – A Chicago Salute
Two-thirds of the way through February and here in Chicago we seem no closer to the end of the season. Just two weeks ago the furry critter made famous in Bill Murray’s movie “Groundhog Day” popped out his hole, saw his shadow, and thereby inflicted upon us an additional six weeks of winter. Oh Punxsutawney [...]
A New Way of Looking at Things (with New Pair of Glasses, that is)
I can’t remember the first time I walked in the little optical shop on Broadway near Belmont. I had popped into the eye glass place across the street but they didn’t have what I wanted. But with unrequested kindness and unexpected candor the clerk nodded to the shop across the way and said I might [...]
Home is Where the Heart is – Valentine’s Day 2008
Another Valentine’s Day has come and gone. And if the National Retail Federation had it right some $17 BILLION sluiced into the economy on items like cards, chocolates, candies and other sundries. And to think, the namesake of this holiday died a martyr’s death at the hands of Claudius more than 1700 years ago for [...]
