But Michael Glab, aka “Big Mike,” isn’t just helping customers from behind the counter. Glab often works on his blog weekday mornings at Soma Coffeehouse & Juice Bar, taking frequent breaks to chat with friends and regulars as they come and go. Glab occasionally ventures into the personal, as when he chronicled the final days of his ailing mother. That desire led Glab to do a decades-long stint for Chicago Reader, the Windy City’s alternative weekly. A long-standing Cubs fan, Glab also authored the e-book Coping with the Cubs: A Memoir of Depression and Hope.