So, my almost daughter in law, Megan, John’s girlfriend, has been living with me for the last two years, while she did her undergrad degree at UW-Madison, and John was in graduate school, getting an MFA in photography at Columbia College in Chicago. They both graduated the same weekend. UW-Madison and Columbia are on pretty … [Read more…]
Last week, my lost week of the bashed up face, I really didn’t cook too much. On Monday, my face was too sore – I had cereal and ice cream for all my meals. I’d been planning for awhile to make Jane and Michael Stern’s broccoli casserole, that I got out of the Splendid Table‘s … [Read more…]
Between last Friday and today, Monday, I went to three different types of events, all with their own brand of ceremony and customs: a memorial service, a museum gala, and a piano recital. The memorial was for a prominent and popular University professor, Jim Baughman. He taught for us at the library school a few … [Read more…]
Grrr, they’ve taken my captions away. I abandoned my old friend Portfolio Slideshow (and so has word press as far as I can tell) because I couldn’t get the captions to work, and started using Responsive Slider by Supsystic, that I upgraded yesterday, and now its captions don’t work either – or at least, I think … [Read more…]
Last night we went to see Jeremy Denk play Bartok with the CSO, with a guest conductor, Sir Mark Elder. And gosh, the program was all full of nice stuff about Denk; how he got a MacArthur genius grant, and writes for the New Yorker and lots of other publications, and how his blog is … [Read more…]
Wait that’s a song …. But could insert overworked and underpaid, stupid busy, or any number of other clichés. Including spring ahead – the time change everyone hates (well, except Mark – he likes that it stays light later in the day, but I miss the light in the morning) that I am suffering the … [Read more…]
Unwritten anyways. I’m doing one of my back and forth weeks, down to Chicago on Tuesday, back to Madison Wednesday morning, and now back to Chicago Friday. The weather’s been back and forth-y, too. It was winter over the weekend, for Valentine’s Day, which was a Sunday. The day before was probably the coldest of … [Read more…]
Things are off to a great start: Sunday was the start of the last season of Downton Abbey and the Packers loss on Sunday – which might’ve gotten them a better playoff game opponent, the NFL team from Washington DC, as Al schooled me to call them, rather than their racially insensitive name. We had … [Read more…]