Initially, because I got a musk melon instead of watermelon in my CSA box – and the farmers I buy from, Tipi Produce, grow really good watermelons. But they sell to Willy Street, too, so I bought a chunk of one of their watermelons at the co-op and it’s in the fridge waiting to be […]
So everybody’s in the band – when they got up to play all the tables of people who’d been chatting cleared out and hit the stage. posted from my iPhone
… just too short. I had 4 days of actual vacation this weekend. I only answered a few work emails. And I even took some pictures of food. I knew it had been awhile because when I opened the images in Photoshop, the most recent on the card before this weekend were dated July 26. […]
There was this container of cooked brown rice sitting in the fridge forever, and I was itching to use it up. I tried on a few tentative plans for it for size, but they were all falling into the category of when you buy $20 of additional ingredients to use up 97 cents of leftover […]
When I was a kid, the family tradition was that the big parties with lots of kids and presents and cake and laser tag and video games stopped when you were 11 or 12, and after that everyone in the family got the same thing: dinner and a movie – a grown-up birthday. This year, […]
So a little over a week ago, I was complaining that my office is in the midst of construction hell, but I didn’t have the pictures. Here they are.
When we got up on Sunday morning in Oak Park, for the last day of Lollapalooza, it was raining – as it is right now in Madison, as I write this, already the following Friday. Mark and I went to Starbucks, and I took my computer for the free wifi, and wrote an earlier blog […]
I think I woke up a little the worse for the beer on Saturday morning, but Mark & I got coffee, then we woke up the kids and went for a real breakfast. Our favorite Greek-owned breakfast place moved a few blocks west, on Madison St. on the border between River Forest & Forest Park, […]
After the over-busyness of last week, we are now on vacation at Lollapalooza in Chicago. We got here at about 5:00 on Friday. Mark & Ethan & Abby went straight down to the show. My foster daughter’s aunt was here on the dot to pick her up, but we had to wait a bit for […]
Subtitle: “or, why I’ve had no time to write”. The good: the week-long orientation session for incoming distance students, beginning their degree in library & information studies. I was the chief organizer, but this event was pulled off with a cast of thousands, er, uh, dozens at least, including the 29 students themselves. This was […]