December 2010
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Dec. 27, 2010—
Maybe there’s a...
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Approaching Fairview
The view of my Chicago street, 10 a.m. Dec. 25, 2010
Dec. 26, 2010—
I scoffed at the claim of rats chewing on the wiring of cars parked in our lot on the west side of Chicago. I’ve lived in Chicago for more than 25 years and never heard of this.
But rats disabled the cars of two neighbors and on Christmas Eve I think it happened to me. I’m taking my car in tomorrow.
I did...
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Reconsidering New Year's Eve
Meeting Black Elvis, New Year’s Eve 1987.
Dec. 23, 2010—
New Year’s Eve. Where do I begin? That’s what New Year’s Day is about, right? I’m getting the feeling this New Year’s Eve will be like New Year’s Eve 1998. My Chicago friends Bob and Cleo met me at the Snow Flake Lounge, a tiny bar adjacent to the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Snow Flake...
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Requiem for a Coney Island Bar
Dec. 14, 2010—
Maybe some of you have been to Ruby’s Bar & Grill on the Coney Island boardwalk in Brooklyn, N.Y. Maybe not.
But everyone has the desire for an endless summer.
Ruby’s closed last month. It opened in 1934 and was the oldest bar on Coney Island. You could sit outside, stare at the Atlantic Ocean and understand just how small you are in this world. Life is not meant to...
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A small Christmas story
Dec. 8, 2010—
I like to think I know a little about a lot of things, but I had never seen a real live tiny Christmas tree. I mean, a three-foot North Carolina Fraser Fir with real needles. You put a cup of water in a tree stand and everything.
The orange ribbon on one of about seven branches says it is a “Tabletop Tree.” It seems this tree is for someone in a transient...