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Closing Wrigley Field’s Back Door

The new Toyota sign in Wrigley Field shuts a door, but the game goes on. Continue reading →

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Insurance and Ice Cream Cones

Insurance is best understood over an ice cream cone. My Dad taught me that when I was 17. And like all life lessons that last, there was no grand diatribe of advice. No lessons. No lectures. You learn best not … Continue reading →

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What Marvelous Love

Finding clues to a unifying love as a painter fills a space with beauty.
Scripture from the book of John. Continue reading →

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Officers Eat Last

A homeless woman walks the Chicago streets. Continue reading →

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What if Stories Were the Real Medicine?

What if stories were the key to fixing health care? Continue reading →

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A Distant Haitian Sunrise

 Years from now, the sad eyed young woman in an orange dress, wrapped up against the Chicago cold in a blue goose down coat steps outside the Haitian Community Center and begins to walk to the water. Every year the … Continue reading →

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Mary Travers

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aYAUE6is7I] The tent had collapsed in the blistering rain of the Outer Banks. Miles from any kind of light but our own and we just couldn’t stop laughing. Neither of us having any business setting up a tent.   Piling … Continue reading →

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The Wedding that Stopped Time

  Was that us?  Running through cool sand under 2:00 a.m. starry skies, clothes tossed along the way splashing into the sea then diving under the waves and coming up laughing shivering joy.   Was that us?   Not this … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving for those lost to 9/11

  Let’s invite them all to the apartment for Thanksgiving. The first one they missed. That Thanksgiving we had when we were all so very young.   All of them who flew from the crumbling towers and the dust and … Continue reading →

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