and more. If the last post was What a Week for Wisconsin, then this one is what a week – or more like week and a half – or me. I’m always tempted to quit writing, because by now who cares and isn’t it all the same and a thousand other reasons (well a few … [Read more…]
I know I’ve complained about this time of year before (like in 2023 and 2024 and I’m using one of those forsythia in the snow pics as my iPhone wallpaper now), when all my volunteer and side gigs get super busy. This year I’m not even working, no student advising, but it’s just another bit … [Read more…]
Because we live in Madison WI, a college town, we get winter break when the students are gone, basically New Year’s to MLK Day, with the town to ourselves. So we try to take advantage of the situation and go places that would otherwise be crowded. There’s a restaurant downtown, Short Stack, that usually has … [Read more…]
We went on a quick 4-day getaway to Door County. I was stressed about going (I know unseemly in a retired person, but still) but as the trip got closer and I got more things settled, like combo kitty care with the kids up the street and their dad taking care of the orange kitties … [Read more…]
This time we went to see Robyn Hitchcock, plus we lucked into a nice dinner. And a recipe for May. We left at a leisurely pace on Friday morning. The train was delayed but we didn’t mind too much except the bagel place where we thought we’d get breakfast/lunch closes at 2:00. We dropped our … [Read more…]
Things started off smoothly for our quick trip to Denver to see Rowan, although it was a little nerve wracking waiting for the cab to show up at 6:00 AM to get us to the bus to the Milwaukee airport. But everything was on time, cab to bus, bus to airport, plane to Denver, light … [Read more…]
Which were Saturday Sept. 16 & Sunday Sept. 17. Saturday our first movie was at 11:30 so we went back to the St. Lawrence Market so we could each get the type of bacon sandwich we really wanted. For me that meant a streaky bacon sandwich and for Mark it meant another peameal (Canadian) bacon … [Read more…]
Originally we only had one movie on Thursday so we decided to make Thursday our big night for dinner out. First I’ll tell you about the movies, then the food. We really wanted All the Light We Cannot See, because we both liked the book. Mark remembered but I forgot that what was showing here … [Read more…]
Friday we went to Chicago to see the symphony and have dinner with John & Megan. I’m still on crutches for walking outdoors, even though I don’t need them in the house right now, so we took a lot of Lyfts. I thought we might take the L more, but everyone’s saying it’s filthy and … [Read more…]
And trip to Chicago on crutches. Sunday we went to Chicago to see The Factotum, a modern opera that’s sort of the Barber of Seville, set in a Southside Chicago barbershop. One of the main artists who created it is Will Liverman, who sang adult Charles in Fire Shut Up In My Bones, that we … [Read more…]