Here are a couple of items I’ve been enjoying this week… The first is an embroidered vintage postcard I bought at the annual Garage Galleries art fair in Forest Park. I was shopping for gifts and found a few but knew I wanted this piece for myself. It is mounted on a wood frame with […]
This is a repost of a 10-day series I did on Facebook in 2020. I think it goes well with my recent music videos post. Each post said: “I was nominated to choose ten albums that greatly influenced my taste in music. One album per day, for ten consecutive days. No explanations, no reviews, just […]
Jim and I recently saw The Human League, Soft Cell and Alison Moyet at the Chicago Theatre. What an amazing show! I’m so happy we decided to go together. Alison Moyet has a fantastic voice and was so energetic. I could have skipped Soft Cell altogether. And then Human League were back to phenomenal with […]
Lily comes out of retirement to run one last op while on the run from her former employers in U.S. intelligence, and to reexamine her legacy as a field agent and as an American in foreign lands. Throughout her career she was known as frequently impulsive and even insubordinate, but also an effective and loyal […]
I’ve become a little obsessed with logging my activities. My FitBit is already logging my sleep, heart rate, and steps I have taken, and I add in my walks, PT and free weights workouts, weight and blood pressure over time. I’ve already blogged about my Goodreads account, where I sometimes add ratings and reviews but […]
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I started reading Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series because my mom was a fan. I particularly remember when she read Tunnel Vision (1994) and was fascinated with the lower bowels of Chicago, a network of utility and freight tunnels beneath the Loop. I have her copy of the short story collection Windy City Blues (1995), […]
Aunt Pam recently sent me two packets of letters, postcards, drawings and photos that I had sent her over the last 40 years. I’m happy to say I was delighted by my youthful musings more often than I was embarrassed. The letters cover my childhood in Donovan, my time at IMSA and Connecticut College, and […]
I just returned from Vancouver, British Columbia! What an amazing trip. A few months ago I was feeling nervous about international solo travel and the Global Scrum Gathering conference, wondering if I would be too shy to meet people or my knee too stiff to do all the adventuring I wanted. But I overcame both […]
I enjoyed making my last post a collection of photos, and uploading photos to Flickr that had been sitting on my phone and computer. So here are some of my favorite photos of my cats over the years: