Haunter’s Houses

If you want to really know someone, follow him home. That was the reasoning behind Stephanie’s Halloween assignment for the correspondents of American Eye, the Chicago-based TV magazine where I worked right out of college.  “The greats,” said our producer. “We’re going to take our viewers home, to the very places where the greats created…

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No Stop, No Shop

The reason that I buy things off eBay is not just because they’re less expensive. Or rather, not only because they’re less expensive, but because: There is only one item, like it or not It’s mailed to you You don’t have to experience a fitting room I don’t shop.  Some of the worst experiences of…

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