Category Archives: Into the Mystic
Don’t Worry Baby — It’ll be Fun Fun Fun
So, it’s in the high forties in the ‘Ville, I’m in a creative slump and I miss California. The Rx was lying there, unjacketed, slipping around on our tower of cds. The Best of the Beach Boys. Oh man, I … Continue reading
Filed under Body, History, Into the Mystic, Music, Ten bucks or fewer, The 'Ville, Uncategorized
Dick Lit
I actually believed I’d made up the literary descriptor ”Dick Lit” but a quick Google proved me behind the curve. But, whatever, I love it, because I’ve become so pissed with the “Chick Lit” thing. I mean, what happened to “Romance Novel?” Allison Pearson’s tremendous “I Don’t … Continue reading
Filed under A Couple of Bucks, Books, Into the Mystic, Library Card
Making Bargains
I had a big birthday this summer, but I still feel as bewildered and bedazzled as I was when I was fifteen. I think, at least back in my day when I was cheated out of the fun of an … Continue reading
Filed under History, How Cool is That?, Into the Mystic, Worth it anyway
Things I Learned This Week
It was a weather week and an insomnia week. Weather: grey skies, nearby tornadoes, humidity and temps in the sixties. The low sixties. Insomnia: Asleep by four am, though I’d been twitching in bed since midnight, then bolt upright at … Continue reading
Filed under Body, Books, Free, History, Into the Mystic, Library Card, On the Street Where I Live, The 'Ville
Spring in the ‘Ville. Again.
Spring in northern Illinois is a warmer version of spring in Quebec — three weeks earlier but just as maddening. We hit 84 one day, and a terrifying nighttime prairie thunderstorm later be were back in the thirties. T.S. knew what he … Continue reading
Filed under Free, Growing things, History, Home, Into the Mystic, On the Street Where I Live, The 'Ville, The Great Outdoors
Good Advice
This post isn’t about big life-changing good advice — I am zero qualified, as messy as my house, brain and life is. This is about non earthshaking advice that’s made my life better, from magazines sometimes, but mostly from people I know … Continue reading
Filed under Free, History, Into the Mystic, Uncategorized
Boursin Boxes and Bliss
My readers have noticed , I’m sure, that I’m good at keeping myself entertained. Give me a piece of paper, half a pound of butter, a crochet hook, a yard of fabric or a book, and I’m all good. (In … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Books, How Cool is That?, Into the Mystic, Less than 50 cents, Origami, Paper
The Christmas Card Letter
You know what I mean — those letters run through a printer on seasonal stationery and tucked into a Christmas card. They’ve been the butt of many parodies and late-night television jokes. I love them! The mean-spirited parodies feature a … Continue reading
Filed under Cheap and Cheerful Object of the Day, History, Holidays, Into the Mystic, Paper
All I Want for Christmas is my Left Bicuspid and Other Stuff
Actually, I’m not totally kidding here. My mouth is a dental nightmare and I lost my upper left bicuspid a year or so ago. I could get by in public with a “flipper,” a tooth on a wire and plastic armature, but somehow someone stepped … Continue reading
Filed under Born in Chicago, Collections, History, Holidays, Home, Into the Mystic, Music, Worth it anyway
Pyrex: Pretty in Pink
Cleaning out my father-in-law’s pantry while we were in the Upper Peninsula this spring was moldy, musty, melancholy work. I can’t remember the oldest expiration date on the cans, though 1987 rings a bell. We drove home with some newish … Continue reading
