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Girls

80% of my children are male. Locked in the minority, but never silenced or bullied, is my lone daughter. My girl.

I joke that had I known she would be our only girl I would have given her a very girly name like Elizabelliarella Gwenmarierose. She carries around a boys’ name in a home full […]

Mike

We had been in Chicago for four hours when we met Mike Ditka.

Our hotel and his restaurant share a building. Aidan and I needed to recover from leaping on and off trains and pulling two suitcases around downtown Chicago. We were hungry. Mr. Ditka’s restaurant was very convenient.

Most of the patrons in the […]

The kindness of strangers

Where is the train to the city?

Where do we buy tickets?

How do we buy tickets?

Oh, in this machine?

Just put in the $4.00? Here? Look at it suck up those dollars!

Now that we have tickets to ride, where do we go?

Through the turnstyle? Over there? Put the ticket in […]