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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 […]

Wild blue yonder

The official sound on an airplane is the murmur. The pilot murmurs the cruising altitude. The nearly silent flight attendents dole out pillows and 2 ounces of Diet Coke per passenger. The business travellers have nothing to say, saving their words for saving their jobs. Couples cuddle together and curl whispers until they tangle. Grunt, […]