Coffee and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Yesterday morning I stopped at the Asado on Irving Park for a coffee. I was feeling crabby and unsettled, stifled in some indefinable way. When I stepped inside, the guy behind the counter greeted me warmly, cheerfully asking… Read More
The Times That We Met Before We Met
We all have those splinter spots in our lives where, if we’d gone in another direction, the trajectory of our lives would have been radically different. It’s the butterfly effect or the Sliding Doors principle or whatever. One… Read More
Delany and the City
I don’t remember when I first consciously realized it, but I am a devotee of The City. And though of course I love my current home of Chicago, I don’t mean the Windy City exclusively. I am devoted,… Read More
