Unqualified Candor

CHICAGO, IL, USA - Everyone seems to be talking to God these days - and to many, he’s talking back.  Messengers abound with information coming directly from God about how we should and should not live our lives and other activities to be done in his name.  I decided that I too could talk to God.  […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - Families are great - but they’re hard work too.   My family is no exception.  We have developed our own culture, for better or worse, and that culture defines our norms and our behaviors toward one another.  It defines how we relate, how we express emotion and how we deal with grief […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - If you didn’t know, I work for a wireless technology company.  The company I work for manages the development of a certain wireless standard.  We facilitate the development of the specification (and concurrent backward compatible versions of that specification), we develop and offer a process through which any product built to […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - It’s Columbus Day, so I’ll grant that has something to do with it, but I have spent many a morning or afternoon working in my neighborhood Chicago coffee shop and it’s ALWAYS this packed. Doesn’t anyone work anymore?
I’m here too - yes, it’s true - but I am working (except for […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - Today was the Chicago Marathon. As usual, the route of the marathon passes our building where Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood abuts it’s Lakeview neighborhood. Unusually, it was 87 degrees Fahrenheit on October 8. In addition to the heat, the sky was clear and the sun bore down on the runners. Adding […]

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SEOUL, KOREA - I’m sitting in a lounge in Incheon Airport, South Korea - surrounded, typically, with various inundations of news and information. CNN on a television next to me, International Herald Tribune tucked under my arm, my laptop accessing (I’m embarrassed) people.com. From my location in the world, I have access to a seemingly […]

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