Jinked

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 [...]

Things have their was of snapping like a rubber band. I push and push and push away, but thin elastic can only stretch so far before it breaks in half or comes careening backward, a flash of lightning. Exciting. Not always inviting. I’m disoriented. There are pieces of my life that are lined up on the sill like good little ducks, but there are a [...]

On the way home on the green line (which I must take to State and Lake to transfer to the red) these two guys burst out into song in the middle of the train ride. They were good, and a few people gave them the worn down dollars they had in their pockets. Some woman though, talking on the phone, was pissed because she couldn’t [...]

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 [...]