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You Can Go Home Again: The 10th Anniversary of CHICAGO CARLESS
After the life-changing experience of reuniting with my family, life is now sweeter wherever I may be. The takeaway from the 10-year anniversary of my blog.
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Seize the Day
Waking up on 9/11 and not realizing it's 9/11 is a joyful thing. It's worth remarking on--and holding onto.
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Careful What You Wish For: Nine Years of Chicago Carless
My ninth blog anniversary arrives with old wishes granted. If only I still wanted them.
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From Wimax Woes--to Wimax Goes--in High-Rise Chicago
After almost four years, this Jewish blogger is saying good riddance to bad wireless Internet. Clear Wimax, I wish you had a momma for me to call and tell how you done me wrong for far too long.
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Counting to 11
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.
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Counting to Ten
Ten years after 9/11, to the older but wiser, blogging Jewish Chicagoan that I've become, about the only thing that still resonates for me is the sense of loss. It's still there. It always will be, but life goes on. And so do we, God willing.
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Now how much would you pay?
As I learned staying with friends during my nine months of near-homelessness last year, misery really doesn't love company.
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Stoop-Sitting for Singles
I'm one of the Interweb's charter bloggers. In 1999 I began scribing the Brooklyn local site for About.com. For most of the following three years, I wrote weekly articles about life in the "Mother Borough." I used to have an archive of all my old content, but a hard drive crash in the early 2000s pu
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Things That Are Older Than I Am
I knew this heinous day would eventually come. Oh well. The one good thing about turning 40 today? At least I'm not the oldest thing on the planet. These things are.
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30 to Forty
In 30 days, I'll be forty. As the final countdown begins, it's time to say good-bye to all the things I thought I'd be before August 2010. And wonder where the hell my flying DeLorean is.
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Moving on from Marina City
I am no longer a resident of Marina City. At the verge of 40, my life goals when I moved downtown five years ago just don't match up with who I want to be in the next chapter of my life. So I've given up my high-rise home in order to get my feet back on the ground. In every way possible.
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Why I'm Here: My 9/11 Story Told for the StoryCorps September 11th Initiative (Audio)
On May 21st, I was blessed with the unexpected opportunity to be interviewed by the nonprofit oral-history project, StoryCorps. I visited their mobile recording studio, temporarily parked in Pilsen...and told my 9/11 story for the national September 11th Initiative. From StoryCorps, here is my recor