The Home-Office: The Best! The Worst!
As I read 8 Coolest Tech Offices in Chicago, I admit the images and descriptions — “salvaged materials like wooden pallets, a shipping container and conveyer belts” “(an) Innovation Lab which Read more…
Our (bartered) wedding in pictures
Our September 1st, 2013 almost 100%-bartered wedding in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago… a day of Best Decisions, ending with the best of them all, becoming legal Best Friends. I found out Read more…
How to win at dating
Dating. It’s the best. It’s the worst. It makes you feel alive. It makes you feel like crap. I can’t get enough of it. Conversations about deal breakers, pet-peeves, activities, Read more…
All I did was send an email! And here we are six years later.
This is Patience and his mother and sister, taken recently. He is the fifteen year-old Rwandan boy I met when I was over there in 2007, and whose education a group Read more…
Wiring money to Rwanda: what a way to end 2013
So, this happened today — In case you don’t speak Western Union, RWF = Rwandan Francs. For the sixth year in a row, Cheese-Its have come together to sponsor the Read more…
Why I’m considering getting a snake tattoo
So, I’ve been meaning to start including Guest Posts on the blog for awhile now. How could I not, what with all the amazing people who come into my life Read more…
A lesson from a 15 yr old: “We are bigger than any fear”
Fear. We’ve all got it. Of spiders. Of drowning. Of speaking in public. Of kale. Of lazy susans. Of love. Of not knowing where to sit at lunch. Of being alone. Read more…
The weight of your words and actions
One of my mostest favoritest aspects of my job what I do [it feels weird to write ‘my job’; that phrase seems so NOT laughter, adventure, and glue sticks] are the Read more…
Having to buy your Cabbage Patch Doll on layaway, being bald, & getting fired don’t doom you for life
Business plan? Capital? An MBA? Rich-folk/political connections? Skinny-thighs? You don’t need no stinkin’ business plan, capital, MBA, connections, or skinny-thighs. Nine years ago I got fired, had none of above Read more…
Our wedding vows: disaster, Wordsworth’esque, somewhere inbetween?
Note: “Petaya” is “Pete” and “Saya” smooshed together. #petaya was the hashtag we used for our wedding. We went to a wedding last night. I read Ten Ways I Trimmed $21,000 Off Read more…