Chicago

Saturday night. Destination CVS (to pick-up hormone prescription) and then onto Barnes & Noble. There may have been a time when I felt like I had to apologize for this or make excuses. But, no need.  Reinvention doesn’t always mean reinventing the outside. Sometimes reinvention is about...

I was actually feeling great about myself last night -- given it was a Tuesday -- given I was alone wearing a gold lame Bob Mackie top. I was feeling great and grateful when I walked into the Chicago History Museum. I was invited by a...

"It’s odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn’t know who I was. Then I invented someone, and became her. Then I began to like what...

The IOWA campaign caucus millennial experience (aka me as a Caucus Fellow) was profoundly summed up on the long snowy drive from Davenport to my home in Chicago. I love XM Radio—what is better than three hours of 70’s music when you know the words...

  Happy New Year. I am certain I am not alone this week thinking about what 2016 will look like. Or, equally pressing question…where the hell did 2015 go? Where to begin? Funny how it seems I have come almost full circle. I spent much of 2015 packing,...

Did you click “place order” this week? Were you part of the Cyber Monday craze? Your boxes will likely arrive today. Did you know that Americans (me and you) spent more than $3 billion dollars on Cyber Monday? How could you not? My inbox was inundated with...

My mother was the birthday queen. Partly because she loved any sort of celebration---but mostly because she made birthdays the most precious and sacred day. She raised me on the belief that there was just one day of the year that belonged to only “YOU”. She firmly...

By Lauren Chesley, The Stuff of Life What does it actually mean to seize the day…to silence your phone and your mind and live in the moment? This is a hard one for me. In fact, I almost got run over by zooming traffic because I was...