I was talking to my brothers last week mentioning my upcoming hair appointment at a local hair salon with Tammy Lea and got a wonderful story from each of them about an incident of ‘hair gone bad’ from years gone by. There was a barber shop on the other side of Western Ave that we […]
Category: Story
Schwab’s Dairy
Even in the dead of winter there is one treat that always appeals to me. Driving down University twice a day I have no choice but to pass a certain blue and white building with concrete benches and umbrella tables that remain up even in the snow. A changeable sign outside advertises the daily special […]
Growing up on Greenlawn
It was not the big yellow house with its imposing white columns, nor the fact that six children resided reasonably well (maybe not peacefully, but no one was murdered) within the massive structure, that was our claim to fame in our South Side neighborhood. Rather, it was the fact that we possessed a hitching post […]
The Winner
Although winning the lottery had always been a dream of Marta’s she actually felt, even during her dreams that it would more likely be like the joke about the guy who prays every day to win the lottery. In the end God hits the guy with a lightening bolt and knocks him out of the […]