After a five-month hiatus from blogging, I decided to fire it up again. I enjoy writing, just as I enjoy other things I don’t make time to do: knitting, exercising and reading actual books (as opposed to Us Weekly and geek tomes about SEO and website analytics). But I’ve decided that my problem is my [...]
It is a beautiful, sunny day in Chicago. Still cold, but sunny. So, I walked to lunch at Wishbone. On the way back, my tummy full of black-eyed peas, I snapped these photos on my iPhone in the 800 block of W. Washington. On my side of the street: an art gallery, with this on [...]
Chicago winters never bothered me. I figured the people who complained about winter were the same people who complained about taxes and Mayor Daley. Complainers. Yeah. Then I had kids. Changed my whole outlook on all of the above. Winter isn’t so wonderful when you’re wrestling two kids into down-coats, balaclavas, mittens and boots at [...]
For us, 2009 ended much as it began: with snow and coats and hoods and mittens. On St. Stephan’s day, Ruairi and Liam were big enough to shovel us out. A few days later, clad in SpongeBob SquarePants pajamas, they decided being a firefighter was a better option; even if the fire hose was really [...]
I began wearing my Lands’ End hooded down coat in mid-October, 2008. Today–April 13–the day after Easter and the day of the Cubs’ home opener, I’m still wearing that coat. And a space heater still hums next to my feet in my office. I’m in the midst of my 11th winter in Chicago. The severity [...]
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