Words Don’t Matter
2013-03-24 – I’m sitting in a waiting room at LAX waiting for my plane back to Chicago. Actually, that’s not true. I’m writing this Friday night and scheduling this to […]
Tag Archives: Family
Getting Out of Town
2013-03-20 – Just a short post, as I’m on a plane today, flying to LA to see my mother for a few days. I always get crazed when a trip […]
Out of Spite
2013-03-15 – Every few weeks I see someone post a kinda new-agey advice on Facebook that goes something like this: “If it doesn’t nourish your soul, get rid of it.” […]
Yid and Yang
2013-03-03 – I have a young cousin who spends much of her time in Israel. She is very excited to be learning about Judaism and she posted a video called […]
Extreme Negotiations
2013-02-22 – Oscar Pistorius says that he fired his gun through a closed door, “accidentally” killing his girlfriend, because he feared an intruder on the other side. I’m a little […]
Too, Too Twenty-Two
2013-02-01 – I will be married 22 years as of tomorrow (2/2). When we chose the date for our wedding 22-1/2 years ago, we thought it was amusing to pick […]
Cut Your Own
2012-12-09 – Today is the day we go out to the country to cut our own Christmas tree. We go to a place near McHenry, IL called Pioneer Tree Farm. […]
One Tough Pup
2012-11-11 – I’m taking a break from moving furniture . . . and boxes . . . and bags . . . of stuff that we’ve accumulated over the years. […]
Talking to Strangers
2012-09-03 – By the third time, I knew something was up. A cute coed, a girl I never laid eyes on, said hi as I passed. The first one I […]
Proud of My Wife
2012-08-25 – It’s dark in the morning now when I leave the house to go to work and that’s the time the skunks are out in the park. I nearly […]
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