You know what? Enough is enough. I’ve been ageist before and I’m about to be again. Except this time, I’m going after all those Crabby Ass Old People. Fucking toolbags. Seriously. It’s been a morning and I’ve had it with their janky ass bullshit. I mean, if you’re just going to go around making everyone [...]
This next post in the series is shamefully overdue, but finally here! Last Saturday, my boyfriend and I defied the downtown crowds gathered for the Michigan Avenue Lights Parade and dined at The Gage. As you’ll remember from previous outings to Graham Elliot, Girl and the Goat, and the Special WINE COUNTRY! Edition; the requirements [...]
There is a reason I do not write sometimes; do not write like I have not written lately. My reason is nothing like so many other bloggers before me, but it’s not for want of legitimacy, nor lack of self-realization. My priorities haven’t shifted, my desire to write has not lessened, my ideas for “the what” have not gone vacant. [...]
Remember my pregnant friend- the one who’s pretty much been MIA since she got married and who had the Baby Couple’s Shower? Well, a week before I went to Alaska and found my true calling (to hug whales, of course!), there came a flurry of texts from her husband announcing she was having The Baby. I [...]
“Yeah hi. I’m calling because my monthly bill has increased $10 and I’m wondering why.” “Let me just pull up your account…..I see you have our SUPER-DOUBLE-WHATEVER-WE-WANT-TO-REBRAND-OURSELVES-TO-COVER-OUR-INCREASE-IN-PRICES package.” “Yup…same one I’ve had for the past nine months.” “Right. Well, due to an increase in operating costs, I’m sure you can understand, we’ve had to raise [...]
Before I write about the trip to Seattle and Alaska, before I share select pictures from our cruise and excursions and marketplace shenanigans; I feel compelled to confess an odd bit of sadness that I am feeling. There is of course the typical and to be expected mourning that the “trip of a lifetime,” which [...]
Over the weekend, I was out running errands around the city and found myself in the Loop on State Street. If you’ve never been to State Street, then imagine a place where wandering homeless persons and panhandlers gather alongside packs of high school children loitering aimlessly. Now, add in hapless strollers being driven into unsuspecting [...]
