I love going to art museums. When I’m away from home in a new city and looking for something to do, I’ll probably try to find an art museum to go to. …

The recent trendy topic in the fair housing, civil rights world has been appraisals and discrimination in appraisals. Meaning, someone owns a home, they go to sell or refinance, they get their house appraised. The appraiser comes, sees a bunch of pictures of a non-white family on the wall, they…

When the pandemic started, I was still living in Chicago and heavily engaged in housing organizing, specifically around rent control and tenant protections. It was apparent then that given everything, people not working and not making money, getting sick, that there would be massive problems with housing. I called my…

My dad gifted me this beautiful double stroller when I was pregnant with my twins. It was tandem style and the kind that could be converted any which way and position. Expensive. So very expensive and one of those wish list items I didn’t think I would actually get. We…

Halloween, Hallows Eve, Samhain, or October 31st is the day when the veil between the world of the dead and the living is at its thinnest. Those departed, walk the earth once again. Ghosts among us as days become shorter and darker and we slip into the cold months of…

My journey with twins and motherhood in the first year I was angry when I found out I was having twins. I made space in my life for the idea of one and the thought that it would be anything more than that had never even occurred to me. Looking…

On Wednesday, April 15, 2020, a group of rent control activists gathered in front of the Thompson Center to urge Governor J.B. Pritzker to use his emergency powers to repeal the statewide ban on rent control. …