Yearly Archives: 2012

Innovation

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Mrs. Fitz

I grow weary of folks, a group that includes myself, using the term “innovation” in the wrong way. Whenever something is new, or fresh, or different…innovation! Innovation is NOT new or fresh or different. Innovation is communal, cumulative and calm. … Continue reading →

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Baby sitting

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Mrs. Fitz

Mom was the eldest of six children. They all flung themselves out of Chicago during the 1950s and landed in suburbs, into split level houses and ranch houses, where their combined 22 offspring sprung. I don’t know if Mom and … Continue reading →

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Wave of the future

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Mrs. Fitz

Commemorating Martin Luther King’s birthday is fun because dreams are always coming true, slipping in quietly like someone late to church. Today in glumpy and gloomy Chicago, I saw three of them: 1. Near his double-parked car on Wellington, a … Continue reading →

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Sister Julia

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Mrs. Fitz

Fourth grade In Immaculate Conception grammar school was better than any other school year for all the wrong reasons. Our classroom was in the new wing of the 4-story brick building. It had windows on 2 sides, making it daytime … Continue reading →

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News muse

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Mrs. Fitz

One of the nice things about the demise of print newspapers is I am content no longer that I know what I should know, what I need to know. Being a journalist, I did acquire the know-how to know newspapers … Continue reading →

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Something fishy

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Mrs. Fitz

Baseball, tis said, is America’s pastime but I think fishing is. Granted, you can’t fish everywhere since water is required. In that sense, it’s a specialized activity unlike baseball, needing only some ground to ensue. However, it is the greatest … Continue reading →

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Pier pressure

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Mrs. Fitz

Before Navy Pier became NAVY PIER, famous epicenter for single-mingles and family frolic, it was the pier Dad took me and brother Eric and brother Mark in 1961 to meet his Swedish kin, who docked a boat there, a boat … Continue reading →

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Sew Sew

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Mrs. Fitz

I think people who crochet are special and my Mom was among them. I don’t know the history of it – how it came to be that a hook and yarn in the right hands created stuff. I do know … Continue reading →

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For Heaven’s Sake

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Mrs. Fitz

When what isn’t present, gently presents itself, it’s a surprise. It’s a present. During the holiday season that happened two times, both in a church, both when a choir sang Ave Maria, a hymn Mom had sung on rare occasions … Continue reading →

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