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Tag Archives: Chicago

Dennis Menaces #weather #humor #Scotland

February 17, 2020

I’ve been trying to get home for days. But the ferries to our little island off the coast of Scotland …

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Swell Funerals, Family, and Chicago. Plus #BookReview of The Alchemy of Noise by @LorraineDWilke #LiteraryFiction #humor

August 20, 2019

Chicago and a swell funeral brought us together. I was in college in Chicago when my mother told me one …

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Of #Family Trees, Swell #Funerals, and South Side #Chicago. #humor

May 19, 2018

I was trying to come up with a good intro for Judith Barrow’s incredible generational family series about the Howarth …

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The Beast Approacheth: Weather Gobsmackage #BeastFromTheEast #humor

February 27, 2018

Weather and politics. It’s all local. When I first moved to Chicago, I was too young to appreciate The First …

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Holy Cow! A lot of Budweiser spilled in heaven last night. #Cubs #baseball #humor

November 3, 2016

In my life, there have been a few universal truths. “This will hurt me more than it hurts you.” (It won’t.) …

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It Really Was A Swell Funeral #family #humor #SundayBlogShare

October 2, 2016

I heard from my old roommate yesterday, and we exchanged news about jobs, kids, grandkids, etc. But it had me …

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The Art of Eating Rasam Shadam

April 20, 2016

Originally posted on ramdomusings:
The true blue Tam -Brahm cannot do without his/her daily fix of rasam shadam….the hotter it…

The WTF: Weather Gobsmackage

January 16, 2016

  Weather and politics. It’s all local. When I first moved to Chicago, I was too young to appreciate The …

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It Really Was A Swell Funeral

September 13, 2013

[NOTE: another blast from the past — adapted from my column that originally ran in the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette in 1991.] …

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Weather: gobsmacked

April 28, 2013

Fluffy white clouds, green fields dotted with sheep, lines of dead moles strung up by their noses… WTF?

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WHERE DID NULL CITY BOOKS GO? (and how can YOU read them for FREE?)

I've split with my publisher, so books 1-4 are getting a makeover in time for the release of OPEN FARE, the final NULL CITY book. If you'd like to read free copies before then, I invite you to join our Beta Reader team. Please send email (barbtaub (at) gmail (dot) com and be sure to let me know which format you prefer. I'll send you my undying thanks plus advanced readers copies of all books, including the upcoming OPEN FARE.

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Superpowers suck? Try Null City. After one day there, imps become baristas, and hellhounds become poodles. But someone should have told them the angels were all on the other side.

Each morning, hope flares in the tiny flash of a second before I touch that first thing. And destroy it.

Warden Carey Parker's to-do list is already long enough: find her brother and sister, rescue her roommate, save Null City, and castrate her ex-boyfriend. Preferably with a dull-edged garden tool. A rusty one.

Two novellas: "Payback Is A Witch" & "Just For The Spell Of It"

The story of three women eating our way across India in search of adventure, elephants, temples, palaces, western toilets, monkeys, the perfect paratha…and the kindness of Indian strangers.

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