Before Walmart and Target there was Zayre. That asterisk on the billboard had an hypnotic effect on those in the 70′s and 80′s. It lured the people with its siren call of consumerism: buy, buy, buy and you will be happy, happy, happy. Once you were snagged by the alluring tentacles of Zayre, there was [...]

3rd grade Bounce, bounce, bounce… patter, patter, patter… step, step, step… stroll, stroll, stroll … My feet make patterns on the concrete in no particular fashion and my wandering eyes take in the cottony speckles in the azure sky. It’s an unusually cool summer morning in Chicago, that is before the harsh afternoon heat interrupts [...]