The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one particularly if he plays golf.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs and when I did break out I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

They're very uh you know I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

In high school during marathon phone conversations cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were or at least who I thought they might become.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once and by car forever after.

The car has become the carapace the protective and aggressive shell of urban and suburban man.

My culture-deprived aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

A city building you experience when you walk a suburban building you experience when you drive.