Last week’s passing of Maggie Daley, Chicago’s former First Lady, may not have been a surprise to many people. She had fought a ten-year battle with cancer and in the past couple of years, things seemed more grim. In fact, when former Mayor Richard M. Daley announced that he would not run for office again [...]
My mother is a pack rat. She wouldn’t qualify to be on the television show “Hoarders” by any means: overall her house is very clean. Her closets? Very full. She just doesn’t get rid of things easily. In the first few years of my marriage, I was showing pack rat tendencies. It wasn’t altogether surprising, [...]
Last week, we took our older son to college for the first time. As an incoming freshman moving out of the family home, he was a big ball of uncertainty, anxiety, and, of course, excitement. Coincidentally, his dad and I were the same. Dropping him off was the easy part for me; I had been [...]
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