Now that the Olympic flame has been extinguished and the Royal Family has gone back to doing whatever it is the Royal Family does, Chicagoans such as myself can only ask, “What if?” What if Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had strutted across the stage viagra online canada at the closing ceremonies and taken the Olympic…
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I used to think the Department of Motor Vehicles was the best place to find a collection of individuals in catatonic states that cannot be broken, even when an employee says, “it will just be a few more minutes.” Then I visited a cellphone repair viagra in the uk store. The latter occurred while on…
I am a nervous wreck as I write this column. Several hours ago, I heard the garage door open and the engine start. My teenage daughter rolled down the driveway piloting a piece of machinery that I warned could cause serious injury to herself or ev viagra pills en innocent bystanders if she isn’t careful.…
I strode into my local dry cleaner and awaited Gary, the proprietor. After a minute or so, he emerged from behind a rack of neatly pressed suits, covered in plastic bags. He was sweating profusely, just one of the downsides of working 12-hour shifts in a summer chock-full of triple-digit afternoons. “Are you picking up…
I have always fervently supported my children in their extracurricular endeavors. My only rule is that my personal health and safety not be in danger. With my eldest, now 15, this was never an issue. I felt perfectly safe sitting in the audience watching, listening and occasionally cringing as she labored through piano recitals. Ditto…
Leave it to Lindsay Lohan to give naps a bad reputation. As a dedicated nap taker, I now fear that my slumber will be violently interrupted by a “concerned” party who jumps to the conclusion that because my eyes are shut in the early afternoon and I am not responding to extraneous noises, then I…
If you dine out regularly in large metropolitan areas, odds are excellent you will eventually encounter a famous person sitting nearby. My recent celebrity sightings include Chris Noth from “The Good Wife” and “Sex and the City” in a Manhattan tavern, Jay Leno in a Las Vegas California Pizza Kitchen and British funnyman John Cleese…
On Father’s Day, all dads need to be keenly aware of a very ominous phrase:Do It Yourself or “DIY” if you are texting. I’m warning fathers everywhere because many of us, instead of choosing to spend the day playing golf or taking the easy road and WATCHING golf, may opt to tackle that home improvement…