On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.