Robert Katzman

Friends,

My stoic wife took off my big lumpy miserable bandage last night and found three holes in my right shoulder, sewed up.  She put more smaller bandages over the stitches. My two-year-old granddaughter, MJ, assisted with the transition. Then we watched cartoons.

I am recovering mobility amazingy quickly.  My doctor, a really nice man, said I am repaired. Progress. Wearing black arm sling, which is not a fashion statement.

I will reopen my store today.  Ready for mob of anxious customers.

To people who follow my stories and poetry: Racial Prejudice and a Hyde Park Newsstand in Chicago

I came to Hyde Park in April, ’64 from a racial bubble of (virtually) only Irish and Jews, mixed together with periodic success on the South Side of Chicago, near 87th Street.

A poem by Bob Katzman:

Snowbound

Sweet coffee aroma roaming across my face

Windows half steamed up

Like before and after the storm

I watch for traffic

But there’s none

Trees are so pretty

Each branch white above

Black below

Studies in shadow and light

I measure the snow by how high

The cushiony pile is stacked atop the bird feeder

To people who like my stories:

My last true story of 2012 is titled "I Win One for the Clicker"

I realize that it is doubtful that anyone younger than baby boomers will have no clue what the title references. That means anyone under thirty. We are now so old that when I was eighteen in 1968, the Democrats were the bad guys!

In righteous fury, the country rose up and in its wisdom elected a very different man than Lyndon Baines Johnson. Richard M. Nixon.

Remember?

Bob Katzman, owner of Skokie's Magazine Museum, was interviewed by WGN Radio on May 30th on the Nick Digilio show. The interview has brought awareness of the re-opened Skokie back-issue periodical store to a far wider area in the Midwest. His show has many listeners.

Bob talked about the Magazine Museum, the new CTA station, the uniqueness of

what he offers the public and that there are only four stores like his left in the USA.

This story was born the day I was reading at an open-mike poetry
gathering at the now defunct Borders on Central St. in Highland Park,at
the mid-level area.

Senior entrepreneurial students are getting hands-on business experience as they work to help the owner of a one-of-a-kind Skokie store.

A group of eight students, led by senior Anna Chismorie, are spending the rest of their quarter with Bob Katzman, owner of Skokie's Magazine Museum.

According to Professor Edward Papabathini, a faculty member in the Deptartment of Management in DePaul's Entrepreneurship Program, the students are enrolled in ICS394. It's a senior seminar class necessary for graduation, and this project plays an important role.