Beth and I bicycled to the White Sox game again yesterday, this time with our neighborhood friends Jim and Janet. The last time I posted about riding our tandem bicycle to a White Sox game, some people commented on how brave we were. I’m not sure if they were referring to traffic or that somehow it’s unsafe down […]

We’re only a month into this baseball season and I’ve already had more fun watching my White Sox than I have the past three years. They’re off to a great start, 18-8, leading their division, and well, as Ozzie Guillen once said, “Fun is winning and winning is fun.” Beth and I, weather permitting, are […]

As Beth just posted, she’s been in Anacortes, Washington, for the last few days, hanging out with her sisters. And I’ve been here. At home in Chicago. She got the better of the weather. But I did all right. The highlight was getting to the White Sox home opener on Friday afternoon. That Friday morning—that […]

I wrote here last month about my friend (and baseball organist) Nancy Faust donating her home practice organ to an auction benefiting Chicago White Sox Charities. Boston Red Sox organist Josh Kantor placed the winning bid on the Hammond Elegante Model 340100, and earlier this month a slew of his Chicago musician friends picked up […]

Am I the only one having a hard time remembering that today is a Friday? That it’s December 25th? Christmas Day? Above-freezing temperatures in Chicago today are making it feel more like opening day than Christmas day. My great-niece Floey and I celebrated birthdays this week that pretty much trumped (oh, that word!) Christmas. This […]