Unqualified Candor

CHICAGO, IL, USA - Come on, you know Wikipedia has saved your butt before - or at least answered meaningless trivia that had been nagging at you.  You know it’s been there for you when you needed it most - to look up the legal meaning of ’safe harbor’ or to find out the name of […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn died last weekend. He was the author of two books that I was forced to read but was ultimately changed by and grateful for having read; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Gulag Archipelago.
I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - My mom sent me an e-mail today and signed-off by saying that she decided to share these thoughts with me since she doesn’t have a blog to write them on.  I decided to make her a guest blogger, and post her comments (I hope she won’t mind). I thought they […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - Just minutes ago my niece, Alex, walked out my front door on her way to the airport to head back to Kansas City after a long weekend visit in Chicago.  We had such a nice time.
Alex is 13 and headed into the 8th grade.  All the while she was here, I […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - Well, hello. It’s been a while.
It has been a crazy couple of months - and I have gotten off track in my blogging. Yesterday I was walking down my street toward home and I passed a guy wearing a t-shirt that said, across the front, “If I’m talking […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - You have to have 12 minutes to devote to this video, but invest the time - it is worth it to see and hear Keith Olbermann’s important and articulate rage.  I hope I never get on his bad side. 

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - I’ll go ahead and admit it - I’m an avid Vanity Fair reader.  Great articles covering the gamut of topics and current events while also offering most current trends in art, architecture and culture.  It’s a little high-falutin’ and I am often put-off by the magazine’s dismissiveness of anything happening in the middle 30 states, but I read it anyway […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - This made me laugh out loud when I read it.  I don’t know who made it - but thanks, I needed a good laugh today.   It is meant to be the discarded and subsequently found and leaked ”secret memo” of the John McCain campaign regarding new slogans to use to combat what […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - I’m probably a little bit naive, a tiny bit aloof and a big spoonful of optimistic, but I’ve actually believed until recently that the events shaping the front pages of newspapers and filling the speeches made by politicians didn’t really affect me personally.  While I am a passionate observer of the political process and an ideological, opinionated […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - KA 903 Beijing to Hong Kong - UA 755 Chicago to Seattle - UA 875 Seattle to Tokyo - JL 735 Tokyo to Hong Kong - UA 838 Tokyo to San Francisco - UA 501 San Francisco to San Diego - UA 881 Chicago to Tokyo - NW 011 Tokyo to […]

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