Category Friends
26 hours in El Paso
A few weeks ago my friend Amy told me that she and Kristin (our mutual friend who lives in El Paso, Texas) were planning a week-long backpacking trip to a place called Big Bend — a national park along the border in western Texas. They wanted to know if I was interested in joining them. […]
Chicago – The Little Prince
Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre is one of our favorite theatres and has been the excuse for weekend trips to Chicago more than once. When Amanda heard last fall that they were staging a new adaptation of Antoine de Saint Exupery’s book The Little Prince, we bought tickets and, well, that’s how we all ended up here this weekend in […]
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 – Morning! (Why did you come so soon?)
Whoever proposed 9am as a totally reasonable time to meet for breakfast (ahem, that person may have been me), clearly forgot to factor in talking until 4am… But still. Vacation! Chicago! Who could wish for more sleep when THIS is waiting for you just outside your window?
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 3 – Falling with Alice
Birthdays aside, the main reason for Amanda’s and my rendez-vous in New York was to see Then She Fell. It’s an immersive theatre experience roughly in the same genre as Sleep No More (which I saw and wrote about last year), only here the story was Alice In Wonderland, we didn’t wear masks, and there […]
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 […]
Claudia!
I was in New York today for some meetings at the NFL. It was just a quick one-day trip (up on the 5am train, back on the 4pm), so I figured it would just be all business trip no theatre or restaurants or friends. But then guess what? I discovered through Facebook that Claudia was in New […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 