People have been asking me if I’m excited about the “driverless car” Google is working on. Truth is, I don’t miss driving that much. Mike and I live in a neighborhood in Chicago so close to downtown that I can walk or take a train, cab or bus just about anywhere I want to go. […]

What do you wear to a beer circus?

I refer to my mom by her first name, and if you follow this blog, you already know a lot about Flo. Over the years, you may have read: that she was only 45 years old when our dad died, and from then on she worked full time and raised us on her own a […]

Don’t worry — you can still have an open casket!

This Saturday is Billy Balducci’s last official nightshift bartending at Hackney’s. Hackney’s is our local tavern, and Billy’s been tending bar there since the day it opened in November, 2001. Longtime blog followers know Billy as the guy sitting next to me in a photo we originally published with a 2007 blog post called Cheers! […]