Monticello
December 31, 2008
My New Year’s resolution is to find out more about Thomas Jefferson.
Thanksgiving: An Adopted Holiday
November 27, 2008
Where I come from Holiday means vacation. Going away somewhere for a break, no matter what the date. Here in America, holiday denotes a celebration or an occasion associated with a specific date and of all those “holidays,” Thanksgiving is my favorite. Read the rest of this entry »
Mugged {Along the divide}
November 10, 2008
A few weeks ago I got mugged. Most upsetting was that it occurred right outside my front door.
I got a new job recently and with it a new phone. I’ve never had a fancy phone like this before – and so while waiting for a cab I was checking email and texts and using my time for work before I’d even gotten there. A man came up to me and I presumed he was going into my building, but instead he came right up inside my space and grabbed my IPhone out of my hands with both his hands. Read the rest of this entry »
Protected: Immersed in Dublin
October 25, 2008
Labor Day Swim…floating through the City
September 3, 2008
It was the perfect day in Chicago – sunny and clear. I wanted to mark the end of summer by continuing my practice of floating meditation. Read the rest of this entry »
Street Surgery
August 22, 2008
I travelled up to the North-side of the city a while ago and came across an open wound in the street. The neighborhood around the Montrose Brown Line Station is a good blend of commercial storefronts surrounded by two and three-flats – typical Chicago residential buildings. There’s been a lot of change lately as the CTA works to upgrade all the Brown Line stops to include elevators. Read the rest of this entry »
Visualizing a Textual Inventory
August 17, 2008
Street Food
August 11, 2008
I’ve been hearing the sounds of a street festival drifting up to my apartment on the 11th floor – through the thermopane windows – for the past couple of nights; so yesterday evening Bo and I went down to see what was going on at street level. We found Mexico in Chicago, right on Allport St, outside St. Procopius Catholic church who were having a block party to benefit their school. Read the rest of this entry »
Wheels: are four really better than two?
August 6, 2008
Thinking a lot about wheels lately. Yesterday I needed to go to Hyde Park and when I looked at the Public Transit directions on Google Maps, the estimated time to take two buses was 1.25 hours. I thought about taking the Pink Line to the Green Line, so at least I could go through the Rem Koolhaus tunnel at IIT…so I rode my two wheels over to the station at 18th Street. It was steamy outside. Read the rest of this entry »
Blues Sister
August 5, 2008
Rolling, rolling, rolling; the theme from Rawhide keeps going through my head…maybe because I just watched the Blues Brothers in Grant Park. What an experience to see John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd as Jake and Ellwood Blues running around the same city we were sitting in. Read the rest of this entry »
