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I don't typically love remakes, and this is a remake of a song from my youth sung by Fleetwood Mac, so it's surprising that I ran across a remake of the chain by the Highwomen (comprised of Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Amanda Shires and Natalie Hemby) that I absolutely adore. This group of wome...

And in the naked light I saw... C'mon, you know that one snippet of a line caused you to start singing in your head, didn't it?  I saw this piece on CBS Sunday morning.  An interview with Paul Simon, and it made me smile, and it made me sad at the same time.Paul Simon, arguably my very favourite ...

I came across this, today, on someone else's Facebook page.  It isn't new, in fact it's a few years old.  But it's the first time I've seen in.  It's not by some brilliant scholar, it's, in fact, Sacha Baron Cohen, the comedian known for portraying Borat.But his words ring as true today, perhaps ...

Okay.  For those who know me, they know that I'm a huge Nina Simone fan, as was my father.In this post, I want to feature some very early Nina Simon in a 1960 appearance on the Ed Sullivan show (remember him?), but not for her oh so wonderful voice, as you might expect.  In additional to Nina's s...

This is a nice snippet from one of Trevor Noah's Netflix specials that just made me laugh out loud.  Truly made me LOL.  I love a good comedy special, but I rarely guffaw, and this one really pulled it out of me.  It's a short story about a true Balinese experience.Trevor is a great story teller,...

As a member of my local grievance and professional standards committees I get to see a lot of bad behaviour among our fellow real estate professionals.  Most of it revolves around allowing improper access to property without proper permission.  Sometimes it has to do with misunderstandings over p...

Multiple offers.It's the buzzword of the century.  Almost literally.  Allright, not really, I might have spoken a touch of hyperbole there, but boy, have we been abusing that word lately.  Beating it like an expired racehorse.In a recent contest of multiples, I had a large group of contestants.  ...

My buyers just closed on a beautiful home in a local community.  It's not their first purchase, but it is their first single-family home.  It was a difficult search with many false starts, multiple offers that we lost, but finally a multiple that we won and a great home.We closed early this week,...

I had a referral from a friend for a small two bedroom house, just across the border into Wisconsin.  I sent it to a Wisconsin agent, and didn't ask for a referral fee, because, quite honestly, there wasn't a lot of money in the sale.I asked them to go and check out the house, there had been a ol...

Schiller Park.  One of the northwest suburbs of Chicago, IL. A small village of just over 10,000 people located about 20 miles and just under an hour from downtown Chicago.  And unless you're a local, and even if you are a local, you may not be familiar with the Schiller Park magic pump.  That's ...