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Book 34 Since Mike Royko’s death, I have been seeing his books everywhere. I picked up Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago at the Library Used Book Store. When my mother saw me reading it, she asked if it was my father’s copy. He… Continue Reading “Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, by Mike Royko”
Everyone has airport horror stories. Particularly about my own airport. Did you hear that we were rated the “worst” again? “Worst” meaning of all the airports in the U.S., you are most likely to encounter a delay at O’Hare. Boohoo. Go find another airport.… Continue Reading “Happy Travel Day”
When the snow melts, we see what has been sitting in the snow banks all winter long. At my office, that usually means cigarette butts. I don’t mind smokers as a rule, but I do mind their littering. My real-life friends will know that… Continue Reading “When the snow melts”
The other night, I was driving my father and step mother to dinner. She doesn’t speak a whole lot of English, so he and I are just chattering away. I asked what he was doing this week. Visiting friends, going to the casino, etc.… Continue Reading “On this, the nicest day of the year.”
The weather was absolutely beautiful today. We broke 50 degrees and while I know this is just the Halftime Show of Winter, I don’t care. When I arrived home from Alex’s birthday party – at 4:30 or so, I opened the garage door and… Continue Reading “Pretending to Be Springtime”
Story broke yesterday in Evanston, Illinois about a 10-year old boy that was found unresponsive in his school bathroom. Hanging from a hook. He was found by someone on the maintenance staff that immediately started CPR. The boy died at the hospital. When the… Continue Reading “Grade School Suicide?”
Friday, after the impeachment was finished, the news cameras were all at the former governor’s Chicago home. His security detail was packing up and leaving. Apparently there is no provision for security once a governor leaves office – insert joke about going to prison… Continue Reading “Post Impeachment”
It hit 40 degrees today, for the first time since December. Apparently, 1985 was the last time that Chicago saw a January without hitting 40 degrees. And it was partly sunny, so we all went to get our cars washed. By “we all” I… Continue Reading “The Carwash”
Among all of impeachment material in the Chicago Tribune is a piece by John Kass. The point of the article is that Rod Blagojevitch should now get his butt into the prosecutor’s office and start talking. But he went rather literary. Talking about the… Continue Reading “The Impeachment”
USA Today had the quote from the President: “My children’s school was canceled today, because of what … some ice?” he said. As one of his girls pointed out, Obama added, “in Chicago, school is never canceled. … You’d go outside for recess. You… Continue Reading “Ice Storms”
The Next Dark Age 