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Reverse The Narrative.
I can see my house from here! Photo: Wikipedia, 2006. When I’m facing a challenge that seems impossible, or when I’m standing at a path in the woods that is diverging before my eyes, there’s a tool in...
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Furnished 2bd, 2bth Condo For Rent, South Loop – June 16th
Le Living Room. There are many fantasy conversations we’d like to have. Maybe it’s a “Lottery Prize Official to Your Spouse” conversation that begins with, “Mr. Jones? I have very good news for you…”...
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The Wabash Lights Want to Come to Chicago!!!
The Wabash Lights, imagined. My brand new brother-in-law is making something wonderful! Jack Newell (that’s the brother-in-law) and his partner in this project, designer Seth Unger have been working...
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The Quilter’s Trunk, or: Whatcha Doin’ Next Saturday?
Hands down my favorite quilt shop logo ever. Chicago! Quilters! And friends! And friends of quilters! And their pets: Did you know there’s a new quilt shop in Chicagoland? You didn’t? Well, now you do....
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Twenty Questions.
This photo is public domain, but let’s all hold ABC responsible for the time it held the copyright. I am wishing so hard that I could offer all the alternate names I’ve come up with for the gameshow...
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Quilt Market Is Coming! (Plus: 1 of 2 Announcements.)
This picture of me was taken at Market a couple years ago in one of the hundreds of gorgeous booths at the show. Those pom-poms were edible! Just kidding. International Fall Quilt Market is next week!...
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The Game Plan, and Adorable Things He Says.
This post is not about Quilt Market, but look: Brian Wacaster and Terri Thom from Springs Creative with our Best Merchandising Award! There are a number of booth awards handed out at the show each...
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Airsick.
Showcard, 1918. Image: Wikipedia This is not good. This is very bad. I think I have a flu. I am achy, sniffy, feverish, though that’s not confirmed because I’ve just realized I don’t have a...
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True Tales From Brunch: SCRAM FLAT, Part I.
There are many, many pictures of eggs and pictures including eggs on Wiki Commons. You do not need to go through them all because I have found the only one you really need to see and this is it. Photo:...
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True Tales From Brunch: SCRAM FLAT, Part II.
Way bigger than the restaurant’s actual kitchen, but a decent facsimile. Photo: Wikipedia Please read Part I of this story (one post prior) or you’ll miss the important setup. I approach the family,...
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Miss District of Columbia.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Photo: Me, July 2015. Six days — six days — from right now, I’ll be back in Chicago. It has been such a long, long, long, long and incredible trip. God, I’ve...
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Heart Party!
Now that’s a good-lookin’ dame. My body feels like it got run over by a truck. A moving truck. I also feel like I slept in feathers and I dreamed of swimming in vanilla frosting. (That’s good!) This...
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Enlightenment: Easy
My living room. I’ve actually made a lot of progress, if “a lot of progress” means making my bed. In the course of getting my undergrad degree, I took a class in Indian Buddhism. A lot of undergrads at...
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Opening The Door, Part I.
This, friends, is what you get when you put “flip-flop, footwear” into WikiCommons image search. Thankfully I did not find this person in my home when I opened the door. There’s much more I want to say...
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Opening The Door, Part II: Me Of Little Faith.
My tenants didn’t look like these chuckleheads, but they were apparently as squeaky-clean. Three’s Company publicity photo courtesy Wikipedia. I’m ashamed of myself. There were nights when I actually...
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Life Made a Pre-Washer Out of Me, Part I.
If Small Wonders fabric was pretty and sweet before; washed and dried, it’s angelic. For PaperGirl readers who are not quilters, you are about to learn that quilters are a divided people. We are locked...
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Just To Be Here.
This is the interior of a palace in Poland. But my heart feels like this! Photo: Wikipedia My heart feels like it’s in a jacuzzi. Being back in Chicago is a gift. I turn a corner and look at something...
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The Monadnock Building (It’s a Wonderful Life.)
They are looking at the arcade. Photo: Wikipedia The Monadnock Building on Jackson and Dearborn is my favorite building in Chicago (outside the building where I live, of course.) When it was finished...
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Merry Christmas, Everyone!
Jimmy Carter and his family, Christmas Day, 1978. Photo: Wikipedia Merry Christmas! I’m at my younger sister and brother-in-law’s home in Old Town, Chicago. It smells like ham in here — not all the...
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The View From Above: My Chicago SkyDeck Adventure
A teenage couple looks out on Chicago from the SkyDeck. Photo: Me While in the admission line for the Adler Planetarium on New Year’s Day, Claus and I looked at a pamphlet advertising something called...
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