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 q-tips and [...]
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 [...]
Did You Hear About the Flight Attendant…
Did you hear about Steven Slater? First he lost his cool and probably his job as well.
Slater is a flight attendant. Was, anyway. He had a scuffle with an early-to-rise passenger when their flight landed and before it made the gate. The passenger refused Slater’s admonition and took down his bag from the overhead bin. [...]
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 [...]
If Elected…
Lately I have been thinking of guys I went to college with.
Hah, ending the sentence with a preposition conjures up on the finest fellows ever I crossed paths with, Eric Kizer.
Great guy was Eric. And taken from us far too soon. A repository of arcane quotes, statements, notions and blurbs such as Winston Churchill’s caramel [...]
