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Melvin Durai's avatar

The Chicago Bears, unfortunately, get many of their players from rummage sales.

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M Pierce's avatar

Bill, nice work, again. Did you wear the sweatshirt to Cubbies games and to your travels throughout Chicagoland?

BTW Eric Mataxas’s Bonhoeffer book is a great read.

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Bill Southern's avatar

You should be ashamed of yourself - remember that you were once a proud Chicagoan like me - I half expect you to refer to that tall building downtown as the “Willis Tower” - Egad!

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M Pierce's avatar

When in doubt I default to Rule #3.

I believe terms such as “Chicagoland”, “Metroplex”, “Tri-State Area” “HillCountry Weather (from Austin, TX)” were created by traffic and weather broadcasters. Given PCs, phones, tablets and connected cars, who needs , or uses, weather and traffic reports. These terms can be retired.

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Bill Southern's avatar

Rule No. 3 is one of my favorite rules - kudos to you for embracing it.

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Kathryn O'Brien's avatar

So many great memories of Kenilworth Union Church and Dr. Bowen. Tim and I were married there and all 3 of our kids were baptized there! As I recall, the rummage sale was always on one of the Jewish holidays in September so the HS students who had that day off from school could work at the sale!

I also remember your Bach sweatshirt well. Didn’t you cut the sleeves off at one point?

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Bill Southern's avatar

I think the sleeves may have fallen off during the disintegration process.

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