triticale - the wheat / rye guy

Where We Live

When we were down in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, we got to talking to a young black man we met on the street. I mentioned that we were down from Milwaukee for the day and he asked whereabouts in Milwaukee we were from. When I told him we stay by 27th and Vliet his entire face changed. After a moment or two he said "You did come a long way" and changed the subject.

Here's an example of what generated his reaction, experienced about the same time. Emrack took Hunter out for a late evening walk, and they headed north, something my son would not do unaccompanied by the canine. Just a few blocks away they came upon an ice cream truck pulled over to the curb. The sound system was blaring hip-hop rather than The Arkansas Traveller and the truck's side lights were serving to illuminate a stretch of sidewalk being used as a substitute for a green felt table as a venue for rollin' dem bones.