West Loop, Chicago
Every year my parents send me flowers on my birthday. This year my birthday is on a Friday, but for some reason I had a feeling that I’d be getting them on Thursday, and I did! I could just imagine my mom reasoning that if they were delivered on Friday that I wouldn’t [...]

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Amanda, Dad, Jessica :: Grande Lux Cafe, Magnificent Mile, Chicago
When I worked on Michigan Ave., we used to go to Grand Lux sometimes for special lunches - someone’s first day, someone’s last day, someone in town, etc. There or else Bandera. I’d never been to Grand Luxe on a weekend and when we went after [...]

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On Sunday we were going to go to the beach, but the weather wasn’t cooperating. We ended up going on a Wendella boat tour. The tour we chose was the hour-long Chicago River Architecture Tour It went on both the north and the south branches of the river, then just to the lake, and back [...]

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Recently my parents had to put our family dog down. Max was 15 years old and really was not doing well. 15 years, though, is a long time. Half my life, we had Max. Then one day my mom came home from lunch and found him hemorrhaging and that was the last straw. It was [...]

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Bear Creek, WI is a town of about 800 400 people located 124 miles northwest of Milwaukee, about 42 miles west of Green Bay. There’s a Catholic church and school, some houses, and about 1 bar for every 100 people in the town. That’s about it.
This is where my grandpa was born, where he married [...]

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