Blowin’ in The Winds of Change and Reflections on Family Reunion

I’ve been back (home) from my visit to my mom’s (home) for a week now.  The weather in Chicago was pretty warm the first couple days, but got progressively cooler, grayer, windier, and wetter until the day I returned.  Then the sun reappeared.

I grew up in Roger’s Park, so I found myself saying (to myself) that I was going ‘home’ to visit.  Then, of course, I returned ‘home’ to where I currently live with Don and Jasper, our cat.

Visiting our family always feels a bit like returning ‘home’ yet I am also no longer that person who once lived there.  I no longer feel I could live in Chicago, yet I love it as a city,