It was kind of a rained out weekend, so I think that’s making this humid, hot, and cloudy Monday morning a little depressing. Plus I just don’t feel quite right today. I have a funny spot on my upper lip that’s worrying me* and I’ve been trying to line up new house cleaners which is … [Read more…]
And now the song stuck in my head is Taylor Swift’s august. It’s Emma’s birthday tomorrow and mine has “slipped away into a moment in time”. And the rest of August is going, too. Our backyard got finished. Click the image or the link in the caption to watch the video. It starts with me … [Read more…]
We went to Kansas City for Mark’s favorite aunt’s 100th birthday. Aunt Wanda is everyone’s favorite, really. Before the trip I had the old standard, Lieber & Stoller, 1952, going through my head, although the David Bromberg version is the one I’m most familiar with. Then we watched the first episode of Ted Lasso, Season … [Read more…]
Last week we went to Chicago to meet up with the Denver portion of the family, Mark’s son and daughter-in-law and their two kids, 1 year and three years old. The original plan was that we’d meet up late afternoon-ish Wednesday and probably go to Navy Pier and see what kind of fun we could … [Read more…]
The title of this post comes from the fact that the Thursday after the ALA conference, we went back to Chicago for a day trip to see a play and my lunch that day is below. The restaurant calls it “Wild Mushroom Teriyaki Bowl”, green vegetable & sticky rice stir-fry, citrus ponzu, cashew, garden herb … [Read more…]
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…]