Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is contest entrant Cynthia Kendall, 50.
I put most of the money in the bank, and it has been helping me cover all sorts of things for the past couple of years. Right around that time my kids and I had planned a trip to Universal Studios in Florida. For the first time ever I was like, “Yeah! We can get something from the gift shop!” Not like I am usually, like, “How much is it?” I was like, “Yeah, let’s get the deluxe wand at Harry Potter World! We can get sweatshirts, that’s fine!”