In high school during marathon phone conversations cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were or at least who I thought they might become.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once and by car forever after.

The car has become the carapace the protective and aggressive shell of urban and suburban man.

My culture-deprived aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

A city building you experience when you walk a suburban building you experience when you drive.