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We accuse our cat Tyrion of being a lot of different things. Sometimes, he acts like a baby and lets Lindsay hold him for inconceivably long periods of time. While at other times he displays the traits of a dog by fetching, a cat by sitting on laps and...

My walk didn’t take me very far, just a few blocks, before I ducked into a convenience store in order to get out of the rain. I inconspicuously strolled up and down the aisles so I didn’t look like I was loitering, and even purchased a few old-time candies...

During the spring of 2009 my sister Sarah (or as Lindsay affectionately calls her “Sister Sarah”) was accepted and enrolled in Graduate School at Boston College. That same spring I moved back to Chicago after completing a year coaching at Dartmouth College...

When Lindsay approached me (a week prior) about attending an upcoming Saturday afternoon Cubs game with our friends Suzanne and Jenn I immediately endorsed the idea, and then pulled out my phone in order to see what the pitching match-up was projected...

When my parents and I moved from my mom’s duplex in the city to a house in the Chicago suburb of Skokie we, for the most part, knew what we were getting. The suburbs had better schools, a quieter atmosphere and the opportunity for my parents to buy their...