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Suburban Errand
Earlier this week, we drove up to the north shore to visit our 98-year-old uncle. He had just gotten back home after being hospitalized for pneumonia. We found him in better shape than we expected,...
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Allure
We drove by the Botanic Garden on our way to our uncle’s. I felt the urge to turn in or at least stop the car. It was not just the allure of the colors and the shapes: it was that wall. Walls make a...
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An air of expectancy adorns a suburban home on Christmas night. A dusting of snow has fallen, right on cue. Stillness reigns about the darkened doorway. What kind of day has it actually been? Filed...
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The suburbs sustain their own landscape aesthetic, different from that of the city or country. Whenever I visit my brother, who lives in a sweet subdivision in Palatine, I realize how much I crave...
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Last Saturday, when I was out in Michigan, I looked up from my paper and saw I had a visitor. A deer was peering into the living room. Hello! At one point in history, seeing a deer would be a rarity....
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In the notions department of Vogue Fabrics, an emporium of treasures for people who sew.
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