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As mentioned in My time as a theater correspondent, I wrote several articles for the Stagebill Chicago Theater Guide in the late 1990s and one of these focused on outdoor theater. In my research I learned about landscape architect Jens Jensen who designed outdoor theater spaces within Chicago parks in the 1910s. I included a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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:
I am not certain when I first became interested in botanical gardens, but I have been visiting and photographing them for many years. Here are some of my favorite places and photos: Connecticut College Arboretum — I was lucky enough to attend college in the midst of this beautiful arboretum that surrounds the campus. I […]
Simon is a high school sophomore and just started taking a graphic design class—I’m so excited! Since he’s learning to use Illustrator, I showed him the drawing above, which I made with the pen tool based on a webcam selfie in 2002. He was actually a bit impressed, high praise from a teen to his […]
Last night I was lucky to attend a screening of the concert film/tribute You Got Gold at the Music Box with my friend Web, thanks to the generosity of a stranger with 2 extra tickets to the sold-out screening. It was an excellent and emotional film followed by a live interview with John’s wife Fiona […]