We had an awesome GTWoman Chicago trip in November. It was our 10th year. We had 160 women, 3 buses and 1 very, very old man on a dance floor. It was a weekend to remember, to say the least. There we were, about 10 of us, all over age 40, on the dance floor […]
Black Friday Shopping Fiasco
The boys wanted to go Black Friday Shopping. It was music to my ears. I had spent the last decade bribing them to shop with me (soft pretzels, Hot Wheels, you know the gig) but had never really made any headway with them. After growing up shopping with my mother, then losing her, I was […]
Pokemon Goes and Goes!
I heard Colleen Wares on WTCM Newstalk 580 talking about Pokémon Go on the radio a week or so after it came out. She was looking for answers. I had answers. In the form of my 13-year-old son, named Kendall. I emailed her. I was going on the next day for GTWoman, but did she […]
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Shopping Olympics
Aug. 21st would have been our mother’s 69th birthday. She has been gone nine years, and her birthday is bittersweet. However, we will celebrate by remembering Mom’s Olympic sport: Shopping. She loved to go and just look around. The mall, craft shows, garage sales. The fun was in the hunt, but also in the company — usually her […]
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Go Kartin’
So Nelson wanted to go-kart. About three inches ago. He could not drive. Could only be the passenger. For years it seemed. 10 to exact. Finally, two summers ago he was narrowing in on it. We went to the go-kart track after determining at home that he was just maybe a quarter-inch too short or a […]
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