For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

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.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.