A Perfectly Average Fantastical Day

  It was a beautiful Chicago day.  The kind people talk about when they live here and know are few and far between as we live through a long cold dreary winter.  The blue sky was bright with just a sprinkling of clouds and the air was crisp.  The kind of crisp where you wear a sweatshirt, …

Listen Up 20 Year Old Me

I am now 40 years old and I'd like to go back and say a few things to 20 year old me. Things like, really?  Still trying to make shoulder pads work to your advantage?  Those huge hair bows in your hair that you think are cute?  They're really not, but I like your spunk, …

10 Reasons Why Old People are Awesome

I LOVE OLD PEOPLE.  Here's why: I get to talk really loudly around them and they don't give a rip.  In fact, they kind of enjoy not having to strain to hear me.  I am a loud talker anyway and this benefits both of us. Old people have lived through the shit, man.  They have …