A Coupon Rediscovery

Let’s get one thing straight before we talk about coupons, alright? They’re pronounced KOO-pons. Not KYU-pons. Do you see a U after the C, like cute? No. Do you pronounce “chicken coup” like “chicken kyup?” No.  (Apologies for that blatant misspelling. That is why city people shouldn’t write about country/farm things.) KOO-pons, people, say it with me. [...]

Stepping Up for Kids

This weekend, I participated in Step Up for Kids to support Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. I climbed 80 flights of stairs, more than 1,600 steps, in about 24 minutes. Children’s is a charity I’ve supported for years, and this event was a new and different way for me to contribute to an important cause [...]

Spontaneity Costs More

Inspired by a show on the History Channel this morning, fresh out of bed and still a little sleepy, I said to man-friend, “Let’s go to the Field Museum. We haven’t been there in ages and they have all the Mesoamerican stuff we just watched in the program.”  He, drinking coffee, noted that we were [...]

Five Things I Learned About Taxes Today

Today, thanks to a non-stop media blitz about the effective tax rates of presidential candidates past and current, I managed to learn something about income taxes. Turns out, taxes are not nearly as boring nor as frustrating a subject as I thought. Here, friends, are friends things I learned today: Importantly, I learned the definition [...]

Decisions, Decisions

In this limbo life, I vacillate between wanting desperately to move on to the next stage in my life, and being perfectly excited about the possibilities of a life less roadmapped. Some days, I find myself browsing prices of housing close to home. Other days, I enthusiastically browse positions for me in markets where man-friend [...]

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