Shay While I still feel a certain amount of shame over it, the truth is that I am not a very good driver. I have resigned myself to the fact that I need to avoid driving whenever possible, which is no easy feat when one lives in an area where the default is driving. A large …
Back when the Man Unit and I were still newlyweds almost sixteen years ago, we were returning from the wedding of a mutual friend and her new husband in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. Not even 10 minutes after returning across the city line and back into Chicago, we encountered what we assumed was a …
I have to confess that whenever I write about race in this space, I feel a pang of momentary discomfort…why, you ask? Because inevitably a reader will tell me either via email or a comment that I am being sensitive, that they don’t see race, all people are equal or some variation of that sentiment. …