Or maybe I’m just having a bad week. Monday I put the first scratches on my car. I was pulling into a parking spot at my campus ramp, like I’ve done a million times, and there was this terrible scratching noise, and voilà. The true horror of it is look how many different pieces of … [Read more…]
It was kind of like watching a tennis match. On Friday, Belana’s parents were supposed to arrive at Chicago O’Hare at about 2:00 in the afternoon. Belana and her friend Kiera decided to take an early bus Chicago, so they could have a couple of hours downtown, then ride the blue line out to the … [Read more…]
Saturday we went to the farmer’s market and sat outside on a low stone wall by the Capitol, and ate pastries from Graze, and coffee and a scone from Colectivo for breakfast. Something like this, although we had a cherry Danish and a sausage croissant, which is just a roll like pain au chocolat, with … [Read more…]
We went to Milwaukee to see Bruce Springsteen last night. Way up in nosebleed territory in the basketball arena, along with 20,000 other middle-aged to elderly fans. It was kind of fun, but stadium shows are not really my thing. It’s The River tour – so Bruce & the E-Street band perform the record, and … [Read more…]