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I Heart Chicago
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Middle Adulting
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At the Cool Kids' Table
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20
There's No Crying in Ice Cream
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8
The Dating Arts
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16
Bob and Norman and Me
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13
Saturday in the Park
A photo-ish essay
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Sheila Moeschen
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Don't Lick the Manet
Every so often you see a news item about someone attempting to damage or deface a great work of art in a museum. In January two women hurled pumpkin…
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Sheila Moeschen
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At the Cool Kids' Table
I generally do not find myself in any type of cool circles. The only red ropes I’ve gotten close to involved a Rembrandt. So the day my manager, Lloyd…
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Sheila Moeschen
20
All is Fair in Love and Legos
The 1980s were about a lot of things: fighting Communism, hanging out at the mall, and making sure girls played with girl toys and boys played with boy…
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Sheila Moeschen
10
The Right Stuff
I ran into my friend Charles out on a walk the other morning. He told me about an aunt who had passed away in the fall. He and his sister were in the…
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Sheila Moeschen
8
Electric Youth
Billy Joel recently released a new song called “Turn the Lights Back On.” It’s his first original music since 1993, but you would never know it. I don’t…
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Sheila Moeschen
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The World in Black and White
A photo essay
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Sheila Moeschen
11
The Birdman Cometh
I hadn’t seen the Birdman in months, but there he was standing at the edge of the trail that disappears off onto a wooden observation platform thrust…
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Sheila Moeschen
10
A South End Buttery Sunday
I could hear the little girls before I saw them. It was one of those perfect Sunday mornings in September. The weather being in that sweet spot of mild…
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Sheila Moeschen
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