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Opinion — AnneMoore.net
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Inform, Enlighten, Entertain. A Weighty Issue Indeed. September 13, 2009. Fat consumes 10 percent of our health-care dollars. That’s $147 billion we spend, as a nation, treating diseases caused or exacerbated by too much fat on our frames. …. Harry and Louise Must Die. August 4, 2009. Don’t you hate it when they visit paradise? Back to the Present: Bliss in a Water Tank. Crain’s Chicago Business. August 3, 1998. BALANCE, HARMONY, BLISS: all this in a basement storefront on Lincoln Avenue at SpaceTime Tan...
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Town — AnneMoore.net
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Inform, Enlighten, Entertain. Download the first three chapters as a PDF. It was late in the day, summer’s last. Erik Lehmann stood at the edge of the town pool, keeping guard over his two young sons even though there were four lifeguards on duty, whistles quelled. The pool would close, for the 1972 summer season, in an hour. His children didn’t need to be watched; he just wasn’t good at lounging. He heard his name, or part of it, behind him. It was two women talking; he didn’t turn. I love that house.
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Reviews — AnneMoore.net
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Inform, Enlighten, Entertain. Kid-friendly eateries dish up fun for everyone. Crain’s Chicago Business. April 19, 2004. Most workdays, children and professionals are best kept in separate corners. But not on April 22, when millions of youngsters nationwide will grab a glimpse of their future as part of Ms. Foundation’s “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day,” now in its 10th year. Here are a few kid-tested lunch spots downtown. …. Old Town offers lunch break from Loop. Crain’s Chicago Business. Kennebu...
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Non-Fiction — AnneMoore.net
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Inform, Enlighten, Entertain. Michael Polsky came to America from Ukraine with virtually nothing. Today his giant wind farms are generating millions. Business Week Chicago,. Download as a PDF. Baron in the Making. Jim Tyree built Mesirow Financial into a Chicago institution. Not bad for a hard-knocks kid from the South Side. Download as a PDF. Kennebunkport, Maine, is perfectly disheveled. The Bergen Record,. March 31, 1985. Download as a PDF. Fevers of a young French heart. July 26, 1985. April 19, 2004.
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Profiles — AnneMoore.net
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Inform, Enlighten, Entertain. The One Who Endures. In 1972, Bill Johnson ’68 made history when he became the first openly gay man in modern history to gain ordination to the mainstream Christian ministry. That was just the beginning of the journey for the man and his church. Download as a PDF. Baron in the Making. Jim Tyree built Mesirow Financial into a Chicago institution. Not bad for a hard-knocks kid from the South Side. Download as a PDF. Business Week Chicago,. Download as a PDF. Sweet Life in Paris.
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Lincoln Park — AnneMoore.net
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Inform, Enlighten, Entertain. Download the first two chapters of Lincoln Park as a PDF. Download a review of Lincoln Park from Publishers Weekly. Philip handed her a four-inch nail. Barefoot, Sarah stood on a step-stool she’d taken from the bureau chief’s office, a bad book in hand. A very, very bad book. She hesitated. The thing is, I don’t want the nail to show. Nail everything but the cover, then we’ll glue it closed. That way no one will see the nail. Philip liked the idea of nailing the very bad boo...
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Features — AnneMoore.net
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Inform, Enlighten, Entertain. Celebrating Vivian Maier, unsung street photographer. Five years after her death and the discovery of her cache of images in a storage locker, a show of photography by a Chicago nanny will be mounted at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library March 29. A documentary of her life and work, Finding Vivian Maier, opens in Chicago April 4. …. Leveling the playing field even more. From muggle to media mogul by age 25. Director Zimmerman finds source material in unlikely places. Tourin...
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Fiction — AnneMoore.net
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Inform, Enlighten, Entertain. Read the first chapter here. Download the first three chapters as a PDF. Read the first two chapters here. Download the first two chapters of Lincoln Park as a PDF. Read the first chapter here. Download the first chapter of Spectators as a PDF. Read The Bicycle Poem here. Download The Bicycle Poem as a PDF. Sweet Life in Paris. Lichten Craig Architecture Interiors. Chester Alamo and Costello photography. DAVID & JAYNE STORIES. A Prince of Persia. Books: All the Living.
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The Bicycle Poem — AnneMoore.net
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Inform, Enlighten, Entertain. Download The Bicycle Poem as a PDF. You zig-zag down the winding road where you first drove a car. A pale green Bel-Air it was Tommy Payton’s. You were fifteen his face was like a munchkin’s he was your pal. You liked drinking milk and eating turkey club sandwiches with him at the Big E Diner. You laughed when he said where’s Virginia Beach? You pass the house where you heard a suicide over the phone. Where it was always cool even in the dripping summer steam. You lost your ...
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Spectators — AnneMoore.net
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Inform, Enlighten, Entertain. Download Spectators as a PDF. Our sorrow is overwhelming. One of us always come through. Usually it’s my sister, Amy, because she’s a doer, not a watcher. Her role has always been to entertain. She’s still entertaining. It’s just that no one can look at her anymore. Mom’s not out of it today. You’re studying Aristotle now, she says to Amy. Isn’t that exciting! Remind me, what was he all about? The dream varies, but the outcome is always the same:. Amy flutters a napkin in fr...
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