Jinked

Sometimes you stumble upon strangers playing bags on the street. And sometimes you talk to them. Sometimes they like you, and they give you beer, and you challenge them to a round of cornhole, and beat them. Sometimes you continue conversation while sipping whiskey in tea cups, and sometimes they give you their phone numbers. Sometimes the randomness of life is so very much worth [...]

I didn’t take the bus to the train this morning because I would have had to wait 18 minutes, and I can walk the little-better-than half-mile to get to the train quicker than that. So walk I did. At 7:30 in the morning it had already cleared 85 degrees. It was muggy. Wearing a synthetic shirt, even if it was sheer, did not make it [...]

Driving home from Northwest Indiana tonight, I got to admiring the sparkle-sparkle of skyscraper windows glittering like a treasure box of gems while driving up Lake Shore Drive. Whenever I see Chicago at night, especially the lit-up windows of skyscrapers, I think of being in high school, driving home from Great America at 1 in the morning with my brother and our friend Ken, completely [...]

…there lived a little girl who believed in the magic and magnetism of true love. That sounds unreasonably sappy, but I’m giving myself to dating once again. I’m still trying the online thing, and I’m still going to events and talking to people. It’s all a work in progress, but the older I get the stronger this yearning for companionship becomes. It’s not a matter [...]

I won’t lie. The month of June has been the worst month I’ve had in a long time. I’m now living in Chicago, which is exciting in its own right, but moving and preparing for the move and the aftermath of the move has had my mind racing into panic-mode. Anyone who helped me move in any capacity probably saw this. The week before I [...]