I’m a little unhappy with my post about last weekend, our crazy Chicago to Madison to Chicago weekend for two graduations. I feel like I reported, but didn’t really express everything I was thinking and feeling. This is a tiny bit due to my desire to protect the names of the individuals involved, but primarily, … [Read more…]
[supsystic-slider id=10 ] 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 … [Read more…]
Looks like last year, I wrote about Mother’s Day on the Monday after, so I guess I might as well continue the tradition. And, I’d like to take a little farther back look into the weekend’s activities. On Saturday, I hosted a benefit for Forward Theater, kind of a progressive dinner, starting at my house, … [Read more…]
Obligatory, maybe, but oh so nice. [supsystic-slider id=9 ] Friday was a funny, back and forth kind of day. I had a dentist appointment at 2:00 and a short meeting at 4:00. The dentist confirmed that I hadn’t damaged my teeth or jaw permanently in my face smashing, yay! Before that, I finished grading all … [Read more…]
Guacamole made with early spring ingredients from the Farmer’s Market – a couple of hydroponic or hoop house tomatoes, and green garlic, along with lemons and limes and avocados from warmer places then WI (probably California or Mexico. I wonder if they’ll let produce through Trump’s wall?) We filled up on guacamole & chips, so … [Read more…]
I’m trying to remember which night last week I made it. Here’s what was in it: Leftover Passover lemon-almond cake; about half the cake, that had got really crumbly; About 8 or 9 pine nut macaroons that had been in a bag in the freezer since cookie season. I did something wrong with them last … [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…]
Last Sunday at the WI Film fest, one week and a lifetime away, or at least a half a lifetime. We had fried eggs and toast (potato rolls and the last sesame bagel) and bacon for breakfast, then I biked off to do my first partial shift at Sundance. Basically I was there to get … [Read more…]
Going to try to do the whole thing in one post, except for the Sunday of the Fest – that’s its own story. For me, the film fest started on Thursday, although I’d been to two volunteer trainings already. I worked at home, and took a break to go out to airport, and pick up … [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…]