Yearly Archives: 2011

My assumptions are so quietly embedded I easily lose track of how dumb they can be. At a small theater last night, awaiting the performance of show tunes like South Pacific’s “Gonna wash that man right out of my hair” … Continue reading →

Camera or no camera, today’s Chicago Sunday is what Edwin Land made his camera for. His 1948 Polaroid Camera took a while to morph into the instantmatic my parents bought in the 1960s, but he made it possible to SEE … Continue reading →

I like God alot, now that I’ve gotten to know Him. Catechism stood in the way for a while, but God found a way around that. Catechism was Catholic School Text Messaging when I was in parochial school during the … Continue reading →

I come from the land of talking females and dominating males. Therefore I believe there is power in speech paucity. Dad was a master of the wordless effect; yet, his was a kindly heart. I don’t think he wanted power. … Continue reading →

Six children, of which my Mom Marie was eldest, honored our dead-and-gone with peonies on Memorial Day. We cousins, children of the six, took this opportunity to act up as much as the ritual allowed. The ritual was a caravan … Continue reading →

Some thoughts deserve more thinking, more rounding out, especially the Why? ones: 1. Why is what we think and feel right this minute not the same we know later? 2. When one way lasts for 50 years, why does it … Continue reading →

As an indicator, height is a poor one and I know because I’ve been lined up according to height often. This is due, in part, to the fact that parochial schools have a great number of processions and it carries … Continue reading →

Two side yards, like parenthesis, cupped our ’50s-built Elmhurst ranch house but it was the west side yard where we got down to business. Mom hung sheets on Mondays and Thursdays along a clothesline that resembled high-tension electrical wires, only … Continue reading →

Yesterday morning, Rep.Gabrielle Giffords (D)watched her husband Mark Kelly captain the Endeavor shuttle into an orbit speed that would get you from Chicago, Il to Columbus, OH in about one minute (17,500 mph or 290 miles per minute.) It took … Continue reading →

In Elmhurst IL in the 1960-somethings, Hawthorne public grade school was strategically located across the street from Immaculate Conception Catholic grade school, setting in motion a preoccupation of US and THEM. We of the parochial persuasion had the upper hand, … Continue reading →