When I moved into my first studio apartment in 2017, I got obsessed with the 1995 Jewel single “You Were Meant For Me.” In the song, Jewel has recently split with her lover and moved into her own apartment. She’s heartbroken, but she also digs having her own spot. She fries eggs and reads the […]
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The time I spent the night in my back alley
It turns out that spending the night sitting on a couch in the alley is the best introduction to a new neighborhood.
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This week’s Chicagoan: Kayla Lane Freeman, new Chicagoan
This week’s Chicagoan is Kayla Lane Freeman, new Chicagoan
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Moving cocktails
Ingredients: exhaustion, despair, and a couple shots of flavored vodka
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Leaving my Reader office for the last time
Leaving my Reader office for the last time
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Accumulated crap from over the years
There’s plenty of stuff from the old office that it’s probably best to leave behind
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Give me a slice and a cold one—it’s moving day
The Reader‘s transition to the Sun-Times building is forcing me to come to grips with a different kind of moving on