Dear Chicago Winter Diary
Wednesday, February 12: Today I staggered two miles in a north wind through a snowstorm to a walk-in “urgent care” facility, to be told that the coughing cold I’ve had for almost two weeks will likely last another two or three. I walked back out into the snow relieved that I didn’t have anything bad.
Encore for this Chicago woman, who has appeared here many times over many winters … and who I recently discovered was actually a friend of a friend of mine.
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Writing Boots: Footprints
“What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness,” said novelist Tom Robbins, who died Sunday. “One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.”
He also said once: “From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.”
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