My niece Jen and her one-year-old daughter, who I lovingly call “Toots,” flew in from Florida yesterday. My sister Bev and her family are coming by train from Michigan later this morning. My sister Marilee is flying in from Florida tomorrow, my brother Doug and his daughter Marsha are driving in from Louisville Friday afternoon, […]

In case you missed it, my friend Nancy Faust was featured in an article in last Sunday’s New York Times. Wow. What a fantastic lead sentence to this blog post. What is astounding about that sentence is not that the retired White Sox organist was featured in The Times, but that I can honestly and sincerely […]

Beth and I went to a White Sox game last Wednesday courtesy of their opponent that night, the Houston Astros. More specifically, courtesy of the kindness of Kevin Goldstein, and old friend who happens to be a bigwig in the Astros front office. (Beth posted about Kevin’s story a couple years ago.) The seats were […]

As I write this on a Sunday afternoon, the snow’s falling at about an inch an hour in Chicago, with accumulations possibly reaching 16”, and all that snow blowing around in 25-40 mph gusts. At least that’s what it says online—I’m looking over my computer screen at a grey, but by comparison, mild day in […]

It’s not far away now. The White Sox annual fan fest just wrapped up Sunday, sold out—partly in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the White Sox World Series Championship—but also out of optimism for a great coming season. The Sox added some terrific players, they’ve got some young ones developing fast, and, well, at […]