When I was 11, on vacation in Miami Beach with my parents and brother John, we went to the movies to see Around the World in 80 Days.  It wasn’t just “the movies.”  It was a spectacular event. Everyone in the world HAD to go. That became the definition of a blockbuster movie: big, expensive, … Continue reading February 2023

Here’s to change in 2023.  And growth. And health. We experienced the beginning of the year from Brooklyn in New York. Ah, Brooklyn, I lived there almost 60 years ago.  There’s still some resemblance, But neither it nor I am the same.  As with most feelings, it’s many-layered: first, the joy of good times of discovery … Continue reading January 2023

Gratifying Gossip and The Big House  I had two weekends of reunions in September, high school class then last weekend, college. A highlight of HPHS class of 1962: I hung out with a woman I absolutely hadn’t seen in 60 years.  She was always sweet, but now, she was smiley, bubbly and looked much less … Continue reading October 2022

OK, first day of September.  School starts.  Maggie Jane is in second grade.  We have our 60th high school reunion in a very different Highland Park, IL. And for me and our fellow video explorers, it’s the premiere of a TV show. Saturday Night Special on our streaming channel, imageunion.tv.  You can see it on imageunion.tv at 9 pm Central (10 ET. 7 PT) on September 10. … Continue reading September 2022

What a month! July was a personal emotional roller coaster. I was born in and spent the first 18 years of my life in Highland Park, Illinois. “Oh yeah, that’s where the shootings were,” said a new Canadian friend last week.   We were together at an idyllic north woods/Land of Sky Blue Waters retreat in … Continue reading August 2022

On June 16, daughter Anna, and husband, Christopher, had their third child…girl-boy-boy. As many of you know, the dad has been called “Kicker” most of his life. This new guy is named OTIS KICKER KLINER. Mama and “OTIE.” 6 pounds, 12 ounces. Five hours old in Evanston Hospital It’ll be great to find out who … Continue reading July 2022

Images from My World Phosphorescent sea, Mercer Island, WA. 2021, a mile from the homes of my brother, Judge John Weinberg and of his son, Alderman Ted Weinberg “You Pay for This.” Bezos by Dylan Grove, Worth Gallery, Louisville, KY, May, 2022 Two Cuban Ladies, in the Square, Old Havana, 2012  (Havana Times) Must Be … Continue reading June 2022

MAYDAY  My first association was in kindergarten at Farm School way out in the country in Northbrook, IL.  Then, it was cornfields on fertile land on a few dozen farms. Now, a suburb with some 35,000 people and a bunch of malls. We did the Maypole with everyone in the school (about 100 of us … Continue reading May 2022

From April Fool’s PastOccasionally I get it right. In the 2014 April Fool’s  edition, my first year as proprietor of the Weinberg House Organ, I wrote  about the joy of spring training: …what an absolute thrill to get the first look ever at a player we KNOW will be a Hall-of-Famer like José Abreu, White … Continue reading April 2022

This is not a Lou Weinberg PY-O-MY Letter (“an interesting thing happened; I had this idea; you won’t believe my trip story; read this excerpt.”)  He wrote newsletters for 15 years and sent out 7-8 a year. This is not my ordinary House Organ either.  It’s not like any I’ve written in the last eight … Continue reading March 2022