Chicagoan in Montreal

Audrey was born in south central Illinois soon after the turn of the century. She was a flower child born decades too soon. A liberal open-m...

Over the next three Sundays, I will post articles about three women in my life. These three are/were women of great character who have/had ...

Probably the most professional photo I've taken. Long exposure with a tripod. Taken in Paris, March 1995. Here's the story behind th...

The CAA monthly journal Touring ran an article a while back talking about a study on road rage. Apparently local law enforcement set up a h...

There are some things that I just can't get a feel for. One of them is humidity and the other is the finer points of taste. On the humid...

of 2006. I have now been here almost three years. Although my conversational French has progressed enough over that time that I keep getti...

A couple weekends ago I was in Boston for a hockey tournament. The picture is what I saw when I was blindsided on the ice. No, actually it i...

OK it was not that long ago. Yesterday's post by my friend John reminded me of something I used to do. How cool it would have been to h...

I have commented before a couple times how much thinner people are here, but my brain is still trying to make sense of it. I promise this i...

The life of Hashi & Osai before 1941 was covered in the previous post . They had a very successful act that afforded them liberties and ...

My Flickr account is up and running. I hope to continue posting pictures up there on a regular basis. Everything from interesting stuff fro...

A few weeks back, I was commuting to work and saw the following poster attached to a light pole. Similar to the political placards that have...