CHICAGO WINTER'S GUARANTEED 3 B'S

Any Chicagoan can diagnosis a winter. Cold, white, raw. But a prognosis is a little harder; and yet after all these winters I have a foolproof one for you. Sixty days of the standard 3 B's: Beauties, Barriers, Bamboozles!

The beauties out there will be missed by almost everyone over 16. As we grow up, seems we're hard-wired to look only at what we see with our eyes, not with our hearts. Big mistake! This way we almost always miss seeing the angels and forts and snowmen waiting there in the snow....

Instead of the beauties, we now sees only the barriers. Sidewalks to shovel, driveways to clear, traffic to fight. Another mistake! This way we almost always ignore everything beautiful between every point A and point B.,...

Along with the Chicagoans who find beauties and barriers, come the pols. Pols forever find chances to bamboozle us. That's right! Winter is a whole Pandora's Box of ways one pol can blame the other. Pick any issue -- snow removal, CTA stops, salt supplies, homeless families out in the cold....

OK, got it? You can now plan on 60 days of all 3 B's. Guaranteed!