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Meet The Unemployee
Irv Leavitt is our humor writer, winner of the 2009 and 2010 Suburban Newspapers of America awards for best column writing in our category and the 2010 Chicago Headline Club's Peter Lisagor award for best feature writing. He has covered the news of 17 different …
Hot dog business is everything for The Unemployee
You spend your life trying to solve the great mysteries, slay the big dragons, and conquer your personal demons, only to find out that when the chips are down, you cannot be depended upon to properly insert a hot dog in a poppy-seed roll.
Brain trainers’ mind games give a heady workout
Joanne Telser-Frere, one of the honchos at CogFit-Quest brain training in Skokie, gave me a list of 10 words or phrases to remember more than three weeks ago — and I still remember all of them, in order.
His name is mud — sort of
Ankle-deep in muddy water, I held one end of a 4.5-foot length of new 12-inch water pipe in both hands as I straddled the end of the existing main. Now what do I do? I was supposed to line up the two pipes, and, with …
