About six weeks ago, I found myself consistently, over the course of many days, bothered by a twingey ache in what felt like my lower left molar – tooth #18 for those of you who know a whole lot about teeth. I couldn’t quite pinpoint what triggered the pain. Sometimes it felt like just the air irritated it, and other times it seemed aggravated when I bit into something sweet, or something cold. It would calm down if I flossed…
Chicago, and indeed much of the country, is in the middle of what promises to be the longest cold-snap in more than fifty years – a remarkable feat, given the polar-vortexes (vortices?) that have gripped the city since 2014. If I were back at work, I would likely be bemoaning the 6am commute in sub-zero temperatures with even subber-zero wind chills, but instead, I’m spending many of my hours holed up, wrapped in blankets, listening to my furnace kick at…