Coping with a Fear of Flying: A True Story
“Do you mind if I just… hold your hand?” Continue reading “Coping with a Fear of Flying: A True Story”
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Blow out the Candles, Chicago. It’s Your Birthday.
Today, March 4, 2012, is the City of Chicago’s 175th birthday. If it’s one thing Chicago has taught me it’s this: If you can’t love Chicago, you can’t love anything. Chicago is a complex that is complex: The fickle and brutal elements. The concrete. The segregation. Clout. The multilayered fiefdoms of government. The endless flat … Continue reading Blow out the Candles, Chicago. It’s Your Birthday.
Why I Love Baseball. Oh, Let Me Count the Ways.
As of this writing, it’s an incredibly mild Leap Year Day in Chicago with temperatures at 60 degrees Fahrenheit! It’s gotten me in the mood for baseball! My beloved Chicago Cubs‘ first preseason game will be on March 4 – the City of Chicago’s 175th birthday! – and the home opener is April 5 against the Washington Nationals at beautiful and historic Wrigley Field. April is quickly approaching… Continue reading “Why I Love Baseball. Oh, Let Me Count the Ways.”
Chicagoings-on, Food: For He Who is the Least Among You
I got three meal invitations for this past weekend that I could not refuse. I don’t mean that in a Godfather way.
Restaurant Week in Chicago was in full effect and I wasn’t intending on joining the Open Table RSVP scuttle, but a girlfriend with whom I hadn’t seen in too long texted, so I accompanied her to Boka. Another girlfriend invited me to be the fourth on a reservation for Girl and the Goat, a place I’d been jonesing to return to enjoy a full meal. And finally, I took up a suggestion for Sunday post-church brunch at a new-to-me Ethiopian place, Ras Dashen. Interestingly, of these three, the humble, least-hyped, least expensive restaurant is the joint whose food most impressed me. Continue reading “Chicagoings-on, Food: For He Who is the Least Among You”
