Category archive for ‘LIFE’ rss

  • Counting to 11

    9/11/12 • (0)

    For the first time in 11 years, I made it most of the way to work before remembering. Baruch atah, Adonai…for life continuing on.

  • Looking for Madison

    8/02/12 • (7)

    Ever use a GPS-enabled Android phone to circumnavigate both of Madison, Wisconsin’s major lakes searching for public lakefront access? We did. Mostly in vain.

  • Saturday in the (Theme) Park

    7/23/12 • (4)

    There’s a reason Ryan and I have a rule about going to Six Flags on Shabbat. The rule is we don’t do it. It always takes falling off the wagon to remind you why you were on the wagon in the first place.

  • Not My Father’s Cyclone

    6/29/12 • (1)

    It took me eight years to finally visit Six Flags Great America. Imagine my surprise to find the Coney Island Cyclone sitting in the middle of the Chicago suburbs.

  • 98 and 3/4 Percent Guaranteed: Seven Years of Chicago Carless

    6/27/12 • (5)

    Today my blog turns seven years old. It’s not the first blog I’ve ever written–that was the About.com Brooklyn page back in the 1990s. But after seven years and 714 posts, it’s the one with the most staying power. And I’m grateful for your readership.

  • Amidah Project: Everything Is Holy

    6/22/12 • (2)

    I find it hard to look at human suffering and see no-suffering. I find it hard to look at human faces and see no-faces. It’s not that, deep down, I feel we have any independent existence from God. It’s that I think we’re not supposed to see it that way.

  • Milwaukee Tourism Blows It Again in Chicago

    6/18/12 • (8)

    Two years ago, I faulted Milwaukee’s tourism office for not understanding their audience: Chicagoans. This summer, Brew Town has once again plastered Chicago’s buses and ‘L’ trains with travel ads. Guess what they still don’t understand?

  • The New View from Here (VIDEO)

    6/01/12 • (0)

    When I moved eight miles north from downtown Chicago, I traded in one spectacular high-rise view for another. Here’s a set of videos to show how living across from the Loop compares to living on the edge of Lake Michigan–in all its inland-sea glory.

  • She-asani Yisrael: My Conversion Anniversary

    4/29/12 • (5)

    One Hebrew year ago, my neshama came home. In gratitude, I mark the anniversary of my mikveh day–the day I officially joined the Jewish people.

  • The Great Migration

    2/28/12 • (2)

    Seven years living in downtown Chicago ends Wednesday in a seven-mile trip up Lake Shore Drive. The life and times of this former New Yorker now continue in Edgewater. That is, if we make it there.