It’s 5pm on Wednesday and I’m weaving through the work rush, the cold Chicago air already seeping into the atmosphere like a winter window left open in a warm room. I…
Farewell to the City of Dreaming Spires
“Friends are the sunshine of life.”—John Hay I cheated, and nearly twenty minutes before my graduation ceremony from Oxford University was set to commence, I ripped open the contents of…
Six Months from Now
My Nina (godmother) told me last winter, “Megs, six months from now, you will look back on this situation and be amazed at how far you have come.” I was…