Bob Rosenbaum

Our benefit reading for Humble Design Chicago was a great success. Our thanks to SPACE and readers Marney, Trisha (pictured), Jim, Allen, Keiler, Kendra, Marc, Judy, and Candi.

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Bob Rosenbaum

My grandmother’s large bathroom…

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Sara Marberry

My sister Sue and I started collecting 45s…

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Jack Doppelt

I bought this album used for $2.

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Allen Saxon

For years I thought my Aunt Bess’s encounter…

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Rachel Seidman

Our Mahjong journey began…

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Lynn Shapiro

These lilies became an accidental shrine…

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Betsy Lackey

This my mother’s dieffenbachia.

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Linda Gartz

After my mom’s death…

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Robert Wallace

How I hated that cowlick…

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Paul Watkins

At the age of thirteen, maybe fourteen…

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Suzanne Guess

In fourth grade, my music teacher recommended…

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Francie Arenson Dickman

I loved, and will always love, Snoopy.

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Barbara Huffman

Some clothing encapsulates a moment…

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Mike Conklin

In the summer of 2009, I taught journalism…

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Steve Fiffer

I confess that George H.W. Bush…

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Mary Loretta Kelly

In the corporate world, people retire with golden parachutes…

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Nell Minow

This is not the box…

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Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich

A humble item.

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Bill Roberts

My great-grandmother Mary Kurz Lenz…

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Naomi Gladish Smith

Our family had some unusual stresses…