I love the start of a new year. I’m a list person, so a new year gives me another excuse to make a list of things…
Browsing: Point of View
I adopted a rescue dog last December. Belle has enriched my life in many ways, but I never thought she’d help me see the world I…
I sometimes joke that working on a magazine ages me more quickly. I’m always thinking three months ahead, flying through each day trying to keep up…
There were tornado warnings in the south Chicago suburbs last night. Although the funnel-cloud-producing storm was still 43 miles south of my home, I was more…
I wish I could say I am able to walk through every building about which I write. Out of the hundreds of buildings I’ve written about…
When I was growing up in the small-town Iowa countryside, surrounded by farms and what I considered at the time to be a whole lot of…