It’s quite a departure from LA: from my apartment here in Chicago I can only see a bit of the sky. The main drawing point to my apartment in LA, apart from the brand new hardwood floors, was my huge south facing window: excellent natural light. I live on the lowest floor of a courtyard [...]
Moving to a new city is beginning a relationship without really knowing the other person’s intricacies and quirks. No matter how many times you’ve visited a city, actually living there involves a whole new cadre of responsibilities and commitments. Leaving where you’re lived for years rips away the comfort of a routine: work, a neighborhood [...]
I’ve heard it said that leaving a city is often one of the hardest transitions of adult life. The pure comfort of a pattern of life, the security of familiar paths, the knowledge of the intricacies of traffic, locations of stores, the old hat of oft-trodden routes is gone forever. Even should one move back [...]
When a relationship ends amicably because one of you has moved away, there are always questions. “What if I…” “What if we had…” “If I had just said…” “Could we have…”
Inescapable. Not everyone has had to taste the bittersweet lime of a mutual goodbye, knowing that miles, hundreds or thousands, would separate your lips from [...]