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2020 with a Toddler

January 28, 2021 by Elizabeth Allan

Sitting in a park, waiting for the minutes to pass Chicago Winter The year opened like any other for most people, maybe. For me, it opened with the new responsibility of taking care of a crawling baby while the ground… Read more →

Baby: 9 months in, 9 months out

January 4, 2020 by Elizabeth Allan

When you have a baby, you get lots of advice. One early tip was to keep a journal of the experience, to help you process things, or remember things. This blog would have been the perfect place to keep a… Read more →

ASMR on YouTube

December 3, 2018 by Elizabeth Allan

What is ASMR? I first heard of ASMR when I was living in Saudi Arabia, trawling the internet at night, as everyone who lives alone in a studio apartment is wont to do. For the uninitiated, ASMR stands for autonomous… Read more →

The Press Room, Chicago

October 4, 2018 by Elizabeth Allan

A Restaurant and Wine Bar in West Loop The Press Room is one of the closest restaurants to where we live and has all the makings of a local favorite. Walking past, I had spied the cosy looking basement lounge… Read more →

Cormac McCarthy – All The Pretty Horses

September 18, 2018 by Elizabeth Allan

It doesn’t matter how much I read, I never seem to make any headway on the literary canon: novels by the likes of Cormac McCarthy, Saul Bellows, Toni Morrison, and Virginia Woolf — not to mention the sagas of Homer… Read more →

Westworld Season Two

June 25, 2018 by Elizabeth Allan

The nature of reality. Existential crises. Free will versus determinism. These are all my favorite things and Westworld showrunner Jonathan Nolan continues to make wondrous contributions to the perennial debate: what is real and what is a mirage? Check this… Read more →

Melvin the Dragon

May 16, 2014 by Elizabeth Allan

Melvin the dragon lived in a cave on top of a hill and at the bottom of the hill was a village called Idyll. Melvin couldn’t breathe fire and had stubby little wings, so had no chance of flying, except… Read more →

Author: <span>Elizabeth Allan</span>