I made it to Chicago in record time. Just six and a half hours, door to door, from my parents’ house in Shoreview, Minnesota to my new, albeit temporary, apartment in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood. It is a drive that took me nearly eight hours going the other direction back in August 2011, just days before […]
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Remember when I wrote back in November about feeling unsettled and longing for my old life? Well, I realized my old life isn’t really what I want. If you’ve been following along since I first left Chicago in August 2011 to travel for a year, you may recall I was ready to go. My life
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This week marks exactly 10 years since I loaded up a moving van in Minneapolis and drove seven hours south to make a new home in Chicago. In the decade that I’ve lived here, a lot has changed but one of the constants is that summer is undoubtedly the best time of year in the
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I have been trying to write this post for two weeks. I thought it would be easy. I thought I would quickly summarize how the performance went and how I felt about the whole experience while it was all fresh in my mind. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. I’ll blame it partly on the fact
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What scares you? What makes you feel sick to your stomach? Break into a sweat? Stumble over your words? Shake in your boots? We all have fears. Even the most outwardly confident, secure, calm, cool and collected person has something that brings out a feeling of dread in them. Most of the things that scare
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