The breakfast table at Penny's Restaurant is kind of a microcosm. The oldtimers, Jews and gentiles, gathered, as they do each morning, on St. Patrick's Day and reminisced, bantered, and planned their return at night for corned beef and cabbage. In one of the quiet neighborhoods, lesbian parents talk about the normalcy of their lives. A runner, who found her jogging partner by posting a notice at Bagel Dish, gushes about the beauty of Donaldson Park. On a practice field, a coach puts his baseball team through early spring drills and talks about the high school's winning tradition.
Kids brag up their schools as the best, and perhaps they are.
There's a traffic jam. This is Highland Park. I know we'll get an argument.