You know what’s expensive? FURNITURE. Specifically, bedroom furniture. I can swallow dropping six hundred bucks on a nice kitchen table that I’m going to have to look at every day while I’m eating dinner off a $400 coffee table while sitting on a $500 couch and watching a television set that cost more than I [...]
I haven’t even been in Chicago a week but it’s as though we never left. Scratch that — some things have changed. The bars here are gloriously smoke-free, the Sedgwick L stop is now really nice (as in, there is only an 80 percent chance that you will be mugged, instead of absolute certainty, or [...]
Several readers have pointed out that none of the addresses in my previous post are actually in Roger’s Park. And then Bench himself told me I’m too much of a dumb Trixie for his ‘hood.
Ouch! I stand corrected! Reading comprehension has never been my strong suit. I got perfect scores on the English and math [...]
Our landlord in Nashville has begun showing our house to potential tenants. We are driving up to Chicago next week to find a place to live, but if our previous house-hunting experiences are any indication, it takes us an average of 4.5 months of serious looking to find a place that is remotely acceptable for [...]
We are moving back to Chicago! Wahoo!
There will be things about Nashville that I will miss, and people I will miss even more. I scarcely noticed any of them until I heard we’d be leaving. But I have spent way too much of my life pining for the past and squelching my own happiness for [...]
