[View this post in original format by clicking here] Forgive my forgetfulness. The post from earlier today was trending toward the idea of stark raving fans and two things slipped my mind. On Broadway just south of Belmont is an innocuous shop run by John Hwang. If you wear glasses and you haven'
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05/13/2009
Now Let Me Get This Straight I guess you might file this one under "unclear on the concept." I called a guy Tuesday morning to find out what he would charge to do a side job that I didn't want to do. The faucet in the kitchen decided to hiss a leak and I was willing to pay a fair wage to a guy t
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05/12/2009
[See this post in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] Mother. It sometimes starts a phrase that ends in an unflattering term. An epithet if you will. And sometimes it's the start of a most emphatic declaration. As in the "mother of all wars." But a day like today it is the center p
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05/10/2009
[See in Original Format by Clicking Here] Do You Have to be Cruel to be Kind? What's the deal with kindness? A few weeks back my wife said that in response to a fairly unreasonable and charismatically vitriolic Chicago real estate professional (with the term professional used loosely) that I shou
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05/03/2009
[See this Post in its Original Format] A-B-Seek Seek and ye shall find. Age old advice. But it begs the question of when you seek how do you seek? Bottom line in our culture typically has been we want what we want when we want it. And so we become devotees of rapid provision. We go online with th
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05/02/2009
[See this post at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago blog] Late Night Phone Call It rang. The other night, late at night, my phone rang. Actually it shimmied. Several weeks ago in a meeting I silenced it and found the resultant absence of chittering such a balm to my soul that I have maintained the
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04/29/2009
[See this post in orginal format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] Saturday If I were from Boston (which I am not), I might say this - "It was a wicked busy day." I love the way those guys from Boston talk and use the word wicked. Maybe it stems from the fact that I have enjoyably witnessed my l
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04/26/2009
[View in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] Let me presume that you're familiar with the notion of "any port in a storm." My take on these words strung together is the equivalent of "by any means necessary." And so here we are in Chicago in the midwest in the United States in this
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04/23/2009
[See this Post in Original Format] What if? These words, I think, are the basis of empathy. At least that's what I think today. And empathy, to me, is vital to community. Whether it's across the street, a few blocks over, an entire city, the whole culture, the whole wide world - empathy is the cr
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04/19/2009
[To view in original format - please visit The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] My son Jacksonpeered into the mirror yesterday morning and said something unexpected, I want a haircut. At the age of three-and-a-half, Jackson has had fewer haircuts in his life than he has fingers on his left hand (or
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04/16/2009
