Medium Sized

After college, I lived in Kankakee County in a small town called Momence for a while.  There were only a few hundred people living there with a main street no longer than 10 or 15 blocks long, and that’s being generous.  It was far from work, but in the neighborhood which is what I wanted.  I used to run everyday, and in the summers it would be so hot that would I run with my shirt off.  I worked a few miles away in a larger city called Bourbonnais.  After work one... Read More

Canine Compound

Every morning, someone is out in the courtyard behind my bedroom window screaming “Duke,” in inadequately-hushed tones repetitively in some kind of valiant attempt to overcome the human-dog language barrier.  Either that, or he is attempting to train a dog on the spot without supplying it with any commands.  The poor dog is probably thinking, “Yes, my name is Duke. And until you decide to ask me to do something, I’m going to run through the mud here and... Read More