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Deanna Grows in Her Garden City
(Photo: Letting go of what you think you know about yourself can be the starting point for finding out what you’re truly made of.) [NOTE: Although the timing of this entry is ironic given recent...
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The Good Life in Downtown Chicago
(Photo: My neighborhood, your destination–how do we meet in the middle? The Nichols Bridgeway from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Modern Wing.) During their windy City visit last week, Seattle’s...
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A Real Chicago Dinosaur
(Photo: Another raised drawbridge for “non-native” Chicagoans. Wells Street Bridge in action, from Wacker Drive.) Like all adopted Chicagoans, from time to time I get told by some other local who...
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Pepsi Challenged
(Photo: A tee-shirt fit for a friend who took an unexpected Pepsi Challenge…and failed.) I’m about as non-scene as a gay man can get, but I’m not a zealot. I’d never turn down an offer of free slushy...
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Antigone Goes West: A Man, A Dog, A Bike…and 2,000 Miles Towards A New Life
This post originally appeared on the ChicagoNow blog, Chicagosphere. Know this first: this is the most emotionally compelling blog I’ve ever read, and perhaps the best. A Chicago writer and pet lover...
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Why New Yorkers Shouldn’t Look for Sweet Home in Chicago
A recent discussion thread in the popular, urbanist City-Data Forum asked readers for reasons why some people shouldn’t move to Chicago. That got me thinking about the time I encountered a pair of...
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What Is Your Oath of Chicagoanship?
Seven years in this city (and eight winters, but who’s counting?), and I still struggle with what it means to be a Chicagoan. I love this city more than most Chicagoans I know, and a couple of years...
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The Tallit of Phillip Shenkler
Within the past few days, reader and Facebook friend Mim Golub Scalin granted me the amazing blessing and privilege of allowing the tallit of a Jewish family which isn’t around any longer to continue...
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The Tallit of Phillip Shenkler–UPDATE
I’m happy to report that the tallit with the amazing, bittersweet backstory that I was blessed to be gifted with this week is back in ritual use. This morning, I wore the tallit of Phillip Shenkler at...
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My Kind of Town
“People are so phony and lazy there,” one friend of mine put it when I told him a decade ago that I was planning to make the leap from the capital of the world to the capital of the Midwest. “They’re...
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