When I responded to a craigslist ad looking for cab drivers in the Chicago suburbs, our family was in increasingly desperate financial straits. I thought my unemployment benefits were about to run out and I was looking for something, anything, to pay...

That’s the title of Taxi Wife’s beautifully-written new piece in the Chicago Tribune. Of course, I’m biased. You can read it here. Tagged: biracial, Chicago Tribune, President Obama

The call came yesterday, a little unexpectedly, around lunchtime. I’d just left the taxi dispatch office, where I’d cashed out some senior citizen coupons for a whopping sum of $9.00. Hello John I can put you today in car in the north.  I...