My bike-riding partner For those who know me well, this may not come as a big shocker. For the rest, well, I pride myself on speaking the truth. I’m not the nicest of people. Really. I know that I often come off as Miss Shiny Happy, but the real story […]

Dragonfly: Seidman Park Even the tiniest of obstacles can trip me up. Especially when I have grandiose plans of how my week is going to pan out and those obstacles plop themselves down in the midst of it all. On Sunday my plans seemed entirely doable. Such as…I will have […]

Seidman Park (obviously not taken today)

The promised Queen Anne’s Lace 62 degrees. Cloudy. Rainy. Breezy. I guess we needed a little change-up in our summer weather.

Late-emerging cosmos: this one’s for Steve

Where there’s paint, there’s Lucy I bought my bike when I first moved to Chicago. Scott and I had just started dating and it seemed like something fun we could do together. Yet the narrow streets and less-than-polite drivers intimidated me a bit, so I wasn’t keen on riding as […]

Groovy sunlight sneaking through the cracks in our fence

After nearly a year, I’ve finally fixed the comments popup. Instead of seeing a lovely blue bar clashing horribly with a pink background, you will now be treated to a proper banner. It’s the least I could do. Really.