Its been such a great year, full of travel and family events and lots of work. I’ve been writing reviews of theater and circus, writing a...
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(Ephemera from my year of writing) Today I celebrate the one year anniversary of openly identifying as a writer, which is what I told my writer’s gr...
Read MoreOne Year Writerversary
Imagine you are getting old…but that once you recall being young in the beautiful city of Chicago, and having quite the night life with your friends...
Read MoreThe Graze Empty All Chili Considered Bottle
A friend recently tipped me off to a great source of writing income for freelance writers looking to make a few extra bucks. That source is Craigslist...
Read MoreWriter for Fire
Secret underground dining event? I RSVP’d before the email self-destructed in 30 seconds and the next day I headed off to experience t...
Read MoreUnderground Dining is All Natural
It’s drizzling at dusk in Lincoln Square. Clutching my oversized blue and white umbrella I wonder at the number of runners that jog past,...
Read MoreRainy Lost in Germantown
Goose and gander floating slowly by with 11 tween goslings. They see us eyeballing them, human and barely contained and chained dog-shaped thre...
Read MoreBusse Forest
Travel changes you. Be it rustic or high style, foreign or domestic, lengthy hikes through distant jungles or microadventuring bike rides in your o...
Read MoreWhen I slip I’m still an animal
(Proof that the author’s alarm is set daily!) Even the alarm doesn’t want to wake me up at 5 am. It refuses to ring, and thi...
Read More5 am Miracle for oldtimers who have given up on existence-like me.
It was Saturday morning at 6:45 AM and my husband placed an egg spinach scramble in front of me. He saw me making it for myself every day for weeks du...
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