We cleared the 5.30 threshold Saturday night and somehow we figured we were ahead of the game. The diaper bag was packed. The boys were strapped into their seats. Westward ho went the four of us, tracking down a barbecue joint new to us but universally acclaimed by those many who preceded us to i
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05/18/2008
The Chicago real estate market is a challenging place to find a great home for under $1,000,000. Some folks may shake their heads when reading this, but those folks who are engaged in a strategic and dynamic search of properties trying to find a home for under a million bucks are well versed in j
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05/13/2008
See the orginal expression of this post at TheRealEstateLoungeChicago.com Cinco de Mayo Makes me smile It's it's the day when my baby Lucas Walked with style... And like a battle-weary boxer reeling at the end of the fight, he staggered and jostled toward multiples of steps in a row. Congratulati
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05/10/2008
More and more lately I carry my video camera with me. It sits in my briefcase, bulging an unsightly bulge that oddly bumps into me when I heave the leather satchel upon my shoulder. I suppose what this camera represents to me is what the notion of a diet is to someone with a few pounds too many.
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05/08/2008
Remember the Dave Matthew's song "Satellite"? Spinning high above us all they weave their paths, beaming back beams that stitch together electronic tapestries overlaid with human tidbits like the location of restaurants, grocery stores, coffee shops and the like. So I turn to google and invite yo
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05/07/2008
As I selected the outfits my sons would don today I mused back to the tail-end of my childhood when "Garanimals" were introduced. Garanimals, for those not in the know, was and is a children's clothing line providing tops and bottoms each emblazoned with animal tags designed to make matching litt
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04/20/2008
As I selected the outfits my sons would don today I mused back to the tail-end of my childhood when "Garanimals" were introduced. Garanimals, for those not in the know, was and is a children's clothing line providing tops and bottoms each emblazoned with animal tags design
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04/20/2008
Change.It comes in a pile of coins.Or it's expressed on the calendar four times a year with the shifting of the seasons.Or it happens at odd, possibly unexpected times in one's professional life.Kind of like an old school coffee percolator, the idea of a change was brewing for me a bit before the
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04/06/2008
Moses tooled up to an East Village coffee shop earlier today on his new sleek silver Vespa.It had been a while since I had seen the old guy, but I'm never surprised by what he does or how he does it. Today being a slight slice of Spring on what this year has been an ever-elongating wintry landsca
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03/29/2008
Half a dozen of one, six of the other.That might be the subtitle for the merging together of half of a box of a dozen frozen fish sticks found by an Ohio woman last week.But instead of tossing the x-shaped trio on the frying pan, Victoria Landis tossed them on ebay where their Easter week appeara
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03/23/2008
