Our (bartered) wedding in pictures
UPDATE: The wedding was spotlit in the Chicago Tribune. Our September 1st, 2013 almost 100%-bartered wedding in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago… a day of Best Decisions, ending with the best […]
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 […]
Why UPS Would Deliver a Drawing of Yourself to Your Door
**If you have your images turned off or are reading this in an RSS feed, you may want to head to the actual blog to see the pretty images** UPDATE: […]
How a lovely relationship has closed my womb
It’s always been a given that I want to have kids. That is, until I came into a loving, healthy, fun, stable, invigorating, hilarious relationship. My interest in and experience […]
New Address: Saya & Boyfriend, Chicago, IL
There are two car households. Are there two refrigerator households? My food fills mine, and I’m just not sure there’s room for any beer and chicken fingers. Crossing fingers Boyfriend […]
Not every reference needs to be from the WSJ
I would like to steal and claim as mine a line from a well-written and fascinating article about public radio, specifically about the show This American Life – “It’s about […]
It’d be nice to refamiliarize with the term “direct deposit,” but…
These are the things I no longer know, since leaving the 9-5 world five years ago for the Land of Self-Employment: Paid vacation days Paid sick days Holiday parties 401(K) […]