Life is great, or so I say. In all honesty life is pretty scary when going from a college town community to a huge fast paste city like Chicago.    I just graduated college this past... Read more >>

The streets of Chicago … In the springtime of the year you can taste the flowering, and feel the silky air caress your skin.  At dusk, in summer you can hear the streets sigh with... Read more >>

Our love was hot, just like the summer day we met on. We fell so deep inside of love; who knew we would eventually be broken, move back to our home states, and once again begin to heat up again. As... Read more >>

Given the tough economic times upon us, I was a little surprised by a recent study released by the Travel Industry Association. Apparently less than one in ten American travelers is planning to take a... Read more >>

You know how TV dinners got their name? You have to be completely distracted by the television to actually eat it without gagging. When we eat just to survive, it goes with the territory that your... Read more >>

There are bloggers in the lobby twenty-nine stories beneath me. They are wearing pajamas, boas, or bags on their heads. They are exhausted and sober and loud and drunk. They are hugging out their... Read more >>

Many of us travel great distances and dish out large sums of cash to satiate our vacation daydreams. But if you’re like me and live in Chicago, you don’t need to go anywhere to feel like... Read more >>

When I was growing up my grandmother (my dad’s mom) had a set of brightly colored aluminum drinking glasses. They were in her china cabinet in her dining room and I would ogle them from the... Read more >>

Meet local gal Jenny Beorkrem. She’s the twenty-four-year-old designer and founder of Ork Posters, otherwise known as the latest obsession of everyone who sits within a 20-foot radius of my desk... Read more >>

Two months ago I returned to Chicago to live after living elsewhere for the past 35 years. My 87 year old Mother needed companionship to stay in the house she’s lived in for the past 50 years.... Read more >>