JEF Chap 1

      I had a double blessing. I was the first born and male. I got to be the big brother to my siblings and someone my mother could count on. Over time I became her confidant, baby sitter and I hope someone she could trust. In the meantime on Devon Ave. Farber's Bakery became a success.  That brought with it expectations that I'd succeed in all things unlike my dad. In school I needed to be the best, in sports the best and balance that all with working at the bakery. That was no problem until college. My second semester my grades and attention slipped and continued until I had to leave college. Around that time my father died in a VA hospital in North Chicago, With him gone  no one ran the bakery back end and eventually my mother closed it. I had taken over a computer store in Skokie and was not adv well by the CPA and lawyer my mother had used in the bakery. I took on a store with a crippling debt and useless inventory, purchase with my inheritance, my mother'...

 Odysseus      The day started like it always did, with a cup of disappointment and sorrow. I didn't know how I'd pay my   secretary , the rent or utilities. I needed a crop of new cases and fast. I called around to see if anyone needed my services and struck gold on the third call. " Yeah", the paralegal said, " we got a case that that you could assist with." A quick courtship, a prenup, a fast marriage and a honeymoon in Europe. They seemed a happy couple with lots of promise but the market changed, his company didn't adapt and now it was in trouble. He tried to hide it, they continued to spend but the day of reckoning was arriving. The wife made a panicked call to her friends and as luck would have it, she talked to one of my satisfied clients.      I streamed my mix while I considered the case. Third Eye Blind, Kryptonite by 3 Door Down, a mix of 90's angst and pain for people who didn't fit the mold: the Goths, The Bros, The ones who had eve...