Allow me to paint you a picture. Platinum blond hair, cut at a diagonal. Tanned arms, bared in her lacy black halter top. Jeans, tight and low-slung. She refuses to carry a purse and cannot walk in heels. But she will smile at you when she sees you looking at her above the cigarette smoke [...]
She is disappointed. Mostly about everything. Her husband, their marriage, their finances, their house, her job, her mother, her mother-in-law, the weather…She is disappointed. With herself. But she doesn’t seem to know it yet.She wakes up in bed alone each morning. Her husband is not there to say good morning. He has already moved on [...]
It can be a lot of salacious amusement to poke fun at celebrities and their kooky ways. Especially when that amusement involves Britney and an umbrella or Spencer meeting Heidi’s parents. But, when is it too much? At what point will we realize that even though they’re public figures and “ask for it,” they’re just [...]
About this time last year, I had my wallet stolen. I guess that’s what I get for trying to save a few bucks and have my dry cleaning done at the cheapest place in town. And like a complete idiot, whoever nabbed my coveted $80 red Lodis wallet, also got $50 cash, my credit and [...]
This morning, in the wee hours before the paper is delivered and garbage trucks come through, when only dog walkers roam the streets and maybe a stray runner or two, I lazed on the naturally lit front couch of The Boy’s place, trying to will myself awake. I peered at the dozing neighborhood through the [...]
My lease is ending- again- at the end of September. My landlord wants to know what my plans are for renewal. So do I. Kit is likely moving away. Not, like, California away, but in Chicago parlance, he might as well be (especially with me now being sans car). He’s fixated on the suburbs. And [...]
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