Last year my birthday was on a Monday, and I made pie and took it to a meeting. This year it was a Tuesday. We went to Chicago, looked at a new apartment, and went to baseball with the John and Megan. We picked them up at John’s apartment and a few of the guys, […]
It was a weekend of graduations. On Saturday, I made a dinner for my upstairs renter at the supper club house, who got her PhD in a convocation Friday evening. The menu was: light apps – goat cheese, red pepper, olive & pesto torta, with long rise baguettes, and crackers and peppadews; salami; nuts […]
We went to see a musical production of Daddy Long Legs, the one by Jean Webster, the title notes in the library catalog say: An orphaned girl named Judy Abbott and an unknown, unseen benefactor who sends her to college and whom she refers to as “Daddy-Long-Legs” are the two principals in this immensely popular […]
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, […]
Last night, in the midst of a torrential downpour, I entertained 17 ladies for a baby shower. I knew that it was going to be a somewhat alternative-type affair, but I didn’t know how alternative till I got there. They were all Hospice Care workers, and the mom-to-be is single – no dad in the […]
I know, I know, not so exciting, millions of people’s gots kids on YouTube …. But John got a new camera, and shot this vid of a building that burned down in Milwaukee. It was a pretty popular pizza place, plus the fire blocked off a major road in the city for a few days, […]