the aptly titled "reveries"
So do you wanna hear what I sounded like almost forty years ago?
Northwestern has a student-run musical showcase which started in the eighties, which I think still carries on today in a slightly different form, ...
In my mind the year is something like circle viewed head on, with the winter solstice at the bottom, and summer solstice at the top. But it’s not perfectly round. It’s elongated at the bottom, where the dark, dull winter crawls slowly through the slu...
closed
There are few things sadder than a closed playground, especially the ones that are set up for really little kids. They tore down the one at Constitution Park near our house last week in preparation for a large reconfiguration of the entire sp...
a mini-shrine
I did some math and it turns out I’ve been alive for 21,411 days as of this writing. I only did that so I could come up with some ballpark number of car trips I’ve taken, and that’s hard to really nail down. There wer...
pepper
Crazy times around here since getting back from vacation. I’ve been on the road for work a fair bit, and we’re getting ready to officially wrap up summer as the kids gear up to go off to school—Danny for his senior year (go ...
our view
Aloha! The four of us took our summer vacation to Maui last week. We stayed in Kā’anapali1, about 15 minutes north of Lāhainā on the west coast of the island. It had been about twenty-five years since I last visited Hawai’i, on ...
Back to the Sunday Seven format tonight, s’il vous plaît.
from marathon shape to…this
I haven’t updated on my neck in a while. The news is good: I’d say my right hand and arm are back to 100% of baseline, which I’d defi...
fountains of wayne
On Friday, in what will stand out as an absolute highlight of this summer, we went up to Summerfest to see Fountains of Wayne.
With some bands, you can remember the exact moment you fell in love with them. I was in my car one morn...
“Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote Robert Frost in “Mending Wall.” For the last fifteen years, I’ve had a number of occasions to wonder about the contrapositive: do bad fences make bad neighbors? Signs point to yes.
Ther...
them bones
Hey, friends.
It’s been really busy, as is usually the case in late May / early June when the school year ends. I’ll get back to some kind of consistency here soon enough as we settle into summer’s rhythm.
But while I ha...
