It is not an accident that we settle into spring training just as the season of Lent descends upon us. If you’re a Catholic, especially in this town, such a turning of Earth demands a complete change of life and diet, a commitment to penance and spiritual renewal. I myself plan to make everyone’s life around me horrible. I’m giving up sugar. Wish them the best.
There’s a coffee shop here on the West Side that just opened a few months ago (I almost modified that with “new coffee shop” but then I realized that we have no coffee shops to begin with, unless you count the dispenser at McDonald’s, so to have “a new one” is to say… “one.