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There was a day when it snowed REALLY hard.

We haven’t gotten a lot of snow in Chicago this winter. Really barely any. But that wasn’t the case in February of 2011. Last year we had one of the worst snow storms ever. Last year was when Snowmaggedon hit!

Everyone Mad Libs

The only people who don’t like Mad Libs are the people who don’t know what they are. And Nazi’s.

So for all of the unfortunately misinformed, and for all of the short evil dictators with little mustaches out there, this is the idea behind Mad Libs:

Critiquing Criticism: a lesson from The Smurfs movie

Transformers. G.I Joe. He-Man. Mask (come on — who remembers Mask? It was a-maze-a-zing!). Thundercats. Voltron. These were my favorite cartoons while growing up. But I must be honest, I must confess: I also watched the Smurfs. Yes, yes I…

Peace from pieces

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself…

Rescue me from this poop

That time of year again, we are entering the 5th season. You do know that we have five weather season, not five, right? 

They are: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and…MUD! 

Snowmeggedon is not a thing of myth & legend, but it has left a ton of mess with its exit. Yesterday afternoon I…

9/11: This is a Special Place

In the summer of 2006 Jeannette was 5 ½ months pregnant with our first. We hadn’t taken a real vacation in a few years, so we decided to have a nice last fling before the two of us became the three of us. There was no need for negotiations on where we would go, we were in…

Do we need George Clooney to get us going?

The earthquake in Haiti was devastating. One of the poorest countries in our world — crushed.
The earthquake in Chili was devastating. But it was to one of the richer countries in our world. 

So?

I found this article about the differences in the two…