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The next Chicago Food Swap will take place on May 12 at The Scrumptious Pantry in Logan Square. Registration is now open. As always, to find out more about the Chicago Food Swap, check out our website or join the conversation on our Facebook page.

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Parenting in the Digital Age

Remember when phones looked like this? Our kids don't.

Parenting in the digital age has numerous challenges that we anticipate — cyber-bullying and “sexting” to name two — and even more that we don’t anticipate. While my children are not old enough for Facebook profiles or their own phones, I still find that parenting [...]

October 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Culture, Parenting, pop culture, Social Media, Zuzu | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

My Kid is Part Werewolf

Like Kate Middleton on her wedding day, JR does his own makeup.

I have been laid low this week with a summer cold. Henry James once said that “summer afternoon” is the most beautiful phrase in the English language. If that is so, then “summer cold” must be one of the ugliest. The cause [...]

June 9th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: JR, Parenting, pop culture | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

I’m So Over/I Will Never Be Over

Photo credit: www.bacontoday.com

So, it’s come to this. The laziest possible kind of post: a list. But actually, everyone loves a list, don’t they? As a kid, I looked forward all year to the Washington Post Style section’s annual In and Out list, which it published on New Year’s Day. These days, I always [...]

May 4th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: pop culture | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

What Did You Say?

When I was growing up, I loved watching the old Blake Edwards-Peter Sellers “Pink Panther” movies. Do you remember when VCRs were new, in the early 80′s? I think we must have gotten our first VCR around 1983 because I remember recording the Grammy awards that year, when Michael Jackson won everything, including Best Gospel Album, for [...]

February 9th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: pop culture, Social Media | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Go Huskies!

In general, I live in fear of the day Zuzu leaves our town’s intimate little public school district and heads off to the enormous public high school that serves Oak Park and River Forest, the aptly named Oak Park River Forest High School. But, the truth is, even though I find the idea of a 3000-person [...]

December 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Chicago, Parenting, pop culture, Social Media | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
 
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