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Sundays In My City

June 13, 2010 a picture is worth a thousand words

(Actually these pictures were taken this past Friday…) This post should be titled: I went to the Chicago Hawk’s Parade and all I got was this set of lousy pictures showing the bottom of the Stanley Cup! . . . . . . . Whenever I manage to get my acts together or am not [...]

Tagged as: Bandwagon jumping much?, chicago, people watching, Stanley Cup, Sundays in My City

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Hope springs eternal

April 2, 2010 a picture is worth a thousand words

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death, and God adore. What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be, blest. The soul, uneasy and confin’d from home, [...]

Tagged as: chicago, photo, raindrops on roses, small things in life

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What we love: Toy Maker at Museum of Science and Industry

October 19, 2009 through the looking glass

Honestly the best $5 you can spend at a museum: watch your toy being made along the conveyor belt and have your name laser etched into the toy. HOW COOL IS THAT?! This beats all the crap toys your kids whine about at the gift shop everywhere you go… p.s. Those are my boys’ heads [...]

Tagged as: chicago, overcompensating when husband is away, traveling with kids in tow

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Fall in Chicago. It is back!

October 18, 2009 a picture is worth a thousand words

Fall arrived in our neck of the woods towards the end of September. That was when I realized our maple tree was the first one on the block to start turning red. . . Living in Chicago for over a decade has taught us to appreciate a sunny mild day with a blue sky dotted [...]

Tagged as: chicago, photo, small things in life

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Got Summer? Or, On the Agonizing Ritual of Closet Reorg

October 3, 2009 random

Apparently not this year. Despite its severe winters and famous 3-foot snow, Chicago has always delivered hot and humid summers. These two things are not mutually exclusive, I am sure, according to a meteorologist, but in my mind I always wonder, while either dying from motion sickness from all the shivering or from dehydration when [...]

Tagged as: chicago, imma crazy like that, neurosis

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“We will not become what we mean to you”

August 29, 2009 a picture is worth a thousand words

This is yet another picture I took of the art works that resonated with me when we went through the new Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago. “We will not become what we mean to you.” I think about that sentence often ever since… I’m interested in how identities are constructed, how stereotypes [...]

Tagged as: art, chicago, i've never been to me, stereotypes, things i want to say out loud

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Valiant Struggle No. 11

August 28, 2009 a picture is worth a thousand words

Valiant Struggle No 11, originally uploaded by The Absence of Alternatives. This piece is part of the Public Art exhibit in Chicago: “A Conversation with Chicago: Contemporary Sculptures from China“. Valiant Struggle No. 11 by Chen Wenlin I like “Protest Art”, or art with a message, as much as the next socially conscious and politically [...]

Tagged as: art, capitalism never disappoints, chicago, irony

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Bring your swimming trunks when you visit the Crown Fountain in Chicago…

May 27, 2009 through the looking glass

This is one place that we keep on going back in downtown Chicago, the Crown Fountain at the Chicago Millennium Park, lovingly nicknamed the Face Fountain. Public art pieces based on water features are known to draw people together, inviting people to participate in shared activities and to create an ad-hoc community. Here is what [...]

Tagged as: chicago, photo

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In honor of the Bard’s birthday, prithee, we should channel Katharina from The Taming of the Shrew…

April 23, 2009 random

Today (April 23) is William Shakespeare’s 445th birthday, and Chicago Mayor Richard Daly had proclaimed last week that today would be Talk Like Shakespeare Day in Chicago, since you know, the Second City is known for its high culture and all… Of course today is the day I wish I had ordered “Shakespeare’s Insults“ : [...]

Tagged as: can't bite my tongue, chicago, shakespeare, shrew

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