Same Steps, Different Stories

I fumbled for everything in my hand and mistakenly not looked both ways when I crossed onto Belden and Racine. I recently downloaded the MapMyWalk app and by that decision I automatically felt like a hot-shot. By then I was hoping for a wave of new-found purpose in life, but…

All Walk, No Play… Well, Some Play :)

3:15 p.m. I’m waiting at the brown line Fullerton stop and watch a young boy intensly practicing his baseball pitch against a building. I am on the platform, he is on another planet. I watch him for nearly four minutes, until he excitedly runs to a car that he…

After midnight

On Friday’s night, I went to this awesome concert performed by Gold Panda, Edamame and another artist that I can’t recall the name…

I Saw a Dog!!!!

5:35 pm (Corner of Belden and Racine) I begin my walk outside of my dorm, Hotel Belden. The first thing I hear are cars honking at the intersection Belden and Racine where students cross without looking, stemming traffic. Unfortunately for drivers, students don’t care if you hit them. Go ahead!! Pay…

All That You See at UIC

Friday, September 16th, 2016

It’s Mostly Just Uncomfortable

Being an introvert, anonymity in a crowd is comforting. I’m drawn to cities because of it. No one expects social interaction in a crowd, the disconnect is civil and expected. Sometimes I’m able to achieve this level of invisibility in the city and sometimes I am not. Women’s…

Wicker Park as a Public Space

A walk through Chicago can’t be pinned down to any specific emotion. The city is too big, too diverse. A walk through lincoln park to me is very soothing, same with a walk through Pilsen, even some places in the Loop. But I would have to argue that a walk through South side or…

An adventure on new street

11:00 Began my walk from University Center in loop

A Quest for Pizza

Walking in Chicago causes me a mix of emotions. During the day you have the stress of crazy drivers almost hitting you…

Harmonic Viewpoint

A few of my friends and I where originally going to go to the field museum but we left depaul around 4:30 and the museum closed at five…

The Green Between the Gray

A)2:33 PM: a baby cries out from its stroller. Its mother tries desperately to soothe it to no avail

A walk down memory lane

When I was a child my aunt was a student at The University of Chicago and we would often come down to visit her and my uncle. Together we would take walks all around the city. Some days we would stay by there apartment in Hyde Park other days we would walk all of Lincoln Park and some…