Towards the end of this past school year I chaperoned a field trip with my son Sean’s second grade class to the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) here in Chicago. I was responsible for exploring MSI with a group of five students, including Sean. I have always loved going to MSI and especially enjoy […]
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Over the past seven years I have learned to run and really enjoy the experience. Like many forms of exercise, running is therapeutic for me mentally, in addition to the way it makes me feel physically. I have trained for and run in five neighborhood 5K races, the the most recent with my eight-year-old son Sean. I […]
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It’s Friday the 13th and though I am not very superstitious, it is on my radar. Since this past week has brought a slew of random and unexpected unlucky events to our family, I am hoping that today will be relatively uneventful in comparison. They say bad things happen in threes and there were at […]
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Thank you for your support of and enthusiasm for my fellow writers and me at The Today Voice since we launched our new writing project last week. I especially appreciate those of you who took the time to comment on my first post over there and share your thoughts on the prompt for week one here and/or there. […]
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There’s nothing like it, at least for me. I try to get my fix a few times a year and if I could afford it would get season tickets to Steppenwolf and Broadway in Chicago. My family has had a tradition, for as long as I can remember, of going to see one show together each […]
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Awhile back I shared about some of the “places” I go when I need a vacation (sometimes physically and more often mentally). Over the past week I got to spend time with my family in a magical place in Michigan that holds many special childhood memories for my husband. We rode bikes, jet skis, speed boats, […]
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