Category Food
Chicago – Galoshes and Michelin stars at Everest
Amanda and I returned from brunch and kronuts just in time to dress for . . . (can you guess it?) . . . dinner! We’ve been hooked on the Michelin Guide for years now and have been looking for an opportunity to bring Will and Susan (Amanda’s parents) into our decadent ways. Since Chicago […]
Chicago – Art, brunch and kronuts in the snow
Chicago is not an obvious choice for a February vacation, not with its reputation for ungodly cold temperatures and biting wind. We lucked out on Saturday — the weatherman substituted steady snow for the arctic winds — but it was still no day for strolling through the park. So we headed to the Art Institute of […]
Chicago – Friends and meatloaf and a little bit of snow
Yay, I got to Chicago without delay! No 12-hour waits in New York, no overnight diversion to St. Louis, nothing that normally happens when I normally fly to Chicago happened. Aside from fifty minute wait on the runway on the first leg out to Philadelphia (which was itself only a 20 minute flight), everything went perfectly smoothly. Phew! And another […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving morning dawned bright and cold! First thing to do? Thaw out the goldfish. Best way to do this is set a pan of boiling water on theice. That way it just melts through the surface crustwithout breaking the ice, which can hurt the fish. Then off to the box for an early morning workout: […]
Birthday weekend, part 2 – Exploring Brooklyn
Like I said, by the time we finally turned out the lights on Friday night, it was well past 3:00am. For some reason this prompted Amanda to ask if we needed to set an alarm and wouldn’t it be nice to just sleep in for a while? Fortunately, I saw through this trick question (it was actually […]
The bunny and the steamroller
I’m back! At least for a minute. (Now I’m going to ramble for a minute, so if you want to jump to the good stuff — including cannibalism — feel free to scroll down.) Things have been relentless, to say the least. Remember back in August when I thought it would be a good idea to sign up […]
Opera weekend! Eugene Onegin
Call me crazy and extravagant, but sometimes you just have to set aside a weekend and go to New York to see an opera at the Metropolitan Opera. Clear back in March, I bought tickets with some friends to see the new production of Eugene Onegin that the Met rolled out to kick off the 2013-14 season. […]
Theatre season begins!
I can’t believe it’s already that time of year again: the air is cooler, the days noticeably shorter, my weekend evenings suddenly full of theatre dates. While I don’t love everything about fall (why can’t it just be warm all the time?), that last bit makes up for a lot. This theatre season got off to a […]
Beach camping (Part II)
Waking up to a clear, late-summer morning on the beach is a glorious thing. Especially when your earplugs and sparkly Moroccan blanket made for a long and deliciously comfortable night of sleep. Amy kept laughing at all the jingling. It was a little like Christmastime… The metal grocery cart is another trapping of my “urban […]
Beach camping (Part I)
Okay, so, last weekend. I told you it was a fun one; now I finally have a minute to get it down in words and photos. It started with a long bike ride on Saturday. At that point, I was two weeks away from a 100-miler, and my training was woefully down. There were plenty of […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 