Chicagoan in Montreal

Up until recently I was a pretty bad yo-yo dieter. I would lose 15 to 30 pounds during the spring and summer only to put it back on between ...

It was 1996 when I met John . Damn, it's almost been a decade. He was a rather eccentric fellow who joined our architecture firm. We bec...

I'm a fairly average sports fan. I can really get into it at times. Other times I'll be concentrated on something else then check ...

Welcome to my blog. Feel free to browse around. A good starting point to give you an idea of what I have written here, scroll down to the Po...

There have been much talk lately about the use of the term Holiday Season over the traditional term Christmas. Religious conservatives stati...

It is hard to believe but this is my 100th post. So far I have enjoyed getting these things written down and I feel proud of much of the con...

Before the Simpsons, there was Life in Hell . I was processing some old boxes of miscellaneus items and came across these cartoons I have s...

Friday night I met up with a bunch of other Montreal bloggers. Sadia and Zura floated the idea and those also in attendance included Paol...

Wow! That was something else. I was really amazed about the things I saw the day of the 41 cm (16 in) snowstorm that blew through here Fri...

I am copying the idea that Paolo started on his blog. I have a bunch of drawings and photos in boxes that would be better served in the pub...

Growing up, one of the primary types of music my parents listened to was the singer-songwriters of the early '70's. James Taylor was...

Recently a fellow Montreal blogger, Zura , posted that a friend had been taken hostage in Iraq. Harmeet Sooden was taken hostage on Nov. 26 ...