Tag: lifestyle
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Israel (round two)
Nothing like some good international travel to gain some perspective, am I right? The more places I go, the more I like to come back rather than go somewhere new, because every time I revisit somewhere, I find something I hadn’t seen before. This trip back to Israel was just like that. Being able to…
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New York at Christmas
The new year is here, and accordingly things have been insane in the great city of Chicago. School is back, the Law School Musical is in full swing, rowing is trucking along, and I’m competing in the Miss Chicago/Miss Windy City pageant in exactly seven days (!!!). Rewind, though, to just before Christmas, when I…
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Wine on the Chicago River
My goal for this spring is to experience something new every week. Week one was drinking wine in one of these: I love Chicagoist.com for many reasons, but right now it’s mostly because it introduced me to the City Winery River Domes. Basically they set up these big plastic bubbles near the river, give you a bluetooth…
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Israel
If there’s anywhere in the world I thought I’d never, ever go, it’s probably the Middle East. Don’t get me wrong, I love experiencing different things, but I’ve always had this apprehension of the Middle East being so far different from anything I’ve ever experienced that I just wouldn’t be able to enjoy my time…
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San Antonio
Man oh man. I didn’t think I’d have a post about good ol’ San Antone on this thing, well, ever. I went to high school in San Antonio, and my family lived there until my junior year of high school. It is the place of my most vivid and some of my fondest memories. It…