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Photo credit: Flickr user Palo via Creative Commons I turn 40 this year. After rushing into an ultimately failed first marriage, I no longer get particularly hung up on where or who or what I’m...
View ArticleAn obituary and a celebration of Mark W. Anderson
My friend Mark Anderson died this week. This is the unedited version of the obituary that will run in the Chicago-Sun Times. I will link to their version when it’s posted. UPDATE: Here it is. We’re...
View ArticleSorbet
The other day I realized I’d written a grand total of three posts here this year and two of them had to do with death. This realization came after reading a friend’s status update lamenting a case of...
View ArticleA year of good intentions
Fighting the good fight. With ice cream. I should have known my grand plan for this year might hit a snag or two when my most enterprising, driven friend told me he thought my list of 40 goals for 2015...
View ArticleRainbow Cone is Chicago’s original family dynasty
The piece below is something I wrote for a now-abandoned project about unique Chicago places. With Rainbow Cone‘s grand opening this weekend and the store celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, I...
View ArticleHope
Everyone is afraid. That’s how we got here. I’m looking for hope right now or a sense of some common bond and that’s all I’ve come up with this morning. For some, they’re worried their livelihoods or...
View ArticleA man out of time: Edgar Hansen, 1924-2019
My grandpa Edgar “Ed” Hansen passed away on Friday June 7th around 10:25 in the morning, two days after his 94th birthday. He lived well and died fighting. I started to write about all the things I...
View ArticleToward a better 2022
I have various projects under various rooves. One of these days, I’ll create a better way to bring them all under one. In the meantime, I wrote this thing on Medium about where we are at the end of the...
View ArticleI’m blogging again.
This is an updated version of something I wrote for this site’s Public Notebook last month. Since then, Dan Sinker wrote that he’s thinking similarly. And things have gotten worse on Twitter (W. Kamau...
View ArticleOppenheimer and the moral weight of technology
Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection / CC BY 4.0 I know it’s Christmas Eve but you’ll have to forgive me for going deep on...
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