I’ve been trying to get my thoughts down on just what made 4th of July 2026 so awful for a week. I think I’ll just blame it all on Trump. He wrecked the 4th of July, and during the week since there’ve been so many other egregious acts on his part, it’s hard to focus. … [Read more…]
Although I’ve only been around for the last 30 or so, obviously. My first ALA was Miami Beach in 1994. I think there were a lot of complaints since it was difficult to get from downtown, where there were some meetings and hotels, over to the beach area were the convention center was, more than … [Read more…]
Since probably March, or whenever the lineup came out, we’d been planning to go to the first day of Summerfest, June 18. Susan wanted to go see Alejandro Escovedo and I wanted to go see the Dream Syndicate. But then Susan realized she’d double booked herself with a trip to Connecticut, and at first I … [Read more…]
and strawberries. Sunday evening we went to a dinner at Seven Acre Dairy in Paoli (Powli, as Ms Google calls it). The dinner had been part of their winter paired chefs series, supposed to have taken place back in March. But one of the chefs got sick so they postponed it and made it part … [Read more…]
Sunday at the co-op, I got whacked in the eye by a falling carton of sour cream. The top carton of a stack of two. I was trying to get it down from a high shelf in the cooler, without stepping on the edge of the cooler opening like I usually do. Don’t know why … [Read more…]
Mark thought the scariest thing he’s heard recently is sound bites of this hour and 20 minute cabinet meeting that Trump held on Wednesday, in which Trump told lies and his cabinet members toadied up to him. I think [one] of the scariest things I’ve heard recently is that two times, on Sunday and then … [Read more…]
And his voice sounded terrible. To me, anyways. (Looks like I’m not the only one, although this Washington Post authro came around) The official two performances were a new song, The Days We Left Behind, and Wings, Band on the Run. I went to bed and didn’t hear his 3rd song, that Mark said was … [Read more…]
Here’s another post sticking to food. It was kind of a quiet Mother’s Day this year. No big gatherings, just me & Mark for brunch, after a walk. And rhubarb cimmy buns, from Trine Hahnemann, though hers are much neater than mine. View this post on Instagram … [Read more…]
Since we’ve been back from New York, we’ve done a few cultural things, Chicago Symphony, Madison Symphony, oh, and we went to see The Devil wears Prada 2 on the day of the Met Gala, May 4th this year. So we had a whole day of watching fashion and wretched excess. And I did very … [Read more…]
We had a half day (Sunday), a full day, and a morning, plus two hotel nights, in the big city. We did all the things: saw a Broadway play, a funny musical; walked through Times Square and Central Park (got lost in Central Park – seems to be a tradition for me) and the length … [Read more…]