Swell Funerals, Family, and Chicago. Plus #BookReview of The Alchemy of Noise by @LorraineDWilke #LiteraryFiction #humor
Chicago and a swell funeral brought us together. I was in college in Chicago when my mother told me one …
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St. Paddy & those Irish eyeballs #SaintPatricksDay #humor
Happy St. Pats if you’re Irish—and today, we ALL are! While we’re traveling in India, I hope you enjoy a …
Of #Family Trees, Swell #Funerals, and South Side #Chicago. #humor
I was trying to come up with a good intro for Judith Barrow’s incredible generational family series about the Howarth …
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be English majors. #humor #parenting
I also could have studied math. But I’m still convinced that the best place for calculus in my life is punishment. (As in “Barb, the court finds you guilty of the crimes of baby murder and playing the accordion in public, and sentences you to twenty years of hard calculus.”)
St. Paddy & those eyeballs #SaintPatricksDay #humor
Happy St. Pats day to everyone (because tomorrow we’re all Irish)! Hope you enjoy this repeat of a story from a …
It Really Was A Swell Funeral #family #humor #SundayBlogShare
I heard from my old roommate yesterday, and we exchanged news about jobs, kids, grandkids, etc. But it had me …
St. Paddy & those eyeballs #wwwblogs
Happy St. Pats day to everyone (because tomorrow we’re all Irish)! Hope you enjoy this repeat of a story from a …
It Really Was A Swell Funeral
[NOTE: another blast from the past — adapted from my column that originally ran in the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette in 1991.] …
Barb Taub 