For the past couple of months, my husband Mike Knezovich has had two full-time jobs. He rose to the occasion after I broke my foot in June, walking Harper, accompanying me to doctor appointments, chauffeuring me to the Chicago Cultural Center so I could teach my memoir classes, running all our many, many errands. He […]
Harper is not the only heroic guy in the family – my husband Mike Knezovich is a hero, too. When I told him I’d have a hard time writing about this, he generously offered to write a guest post about it for me. Harper the hero by Mike Knezovich So I was going to steal […]
Break out the Lana Turner dress – I’m going to an exclusive affair at Marcel’s Culinary Experience this Saturday night! What? You haven’t heard of Marcel’s? Where do you live? Under a rock or something? Marcel’s is the new culinary retail store and cooking school that my dear friend Jill Foucré just opened in Glen Ellyn, […]
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. Spanish proverb Last week Mike and I joined dear friends in a campsite in southern France, on the Mediterranean and just over the Spanish border. Every Morning we’d sleep until ten, toddle over to the boulangerie for fresh croissants, enjoy breakfast outside our luxury […]
Harper needs a break. So do we. Friends have offered Harper a week of peace and quiet at their house in the suburbs, and while he’s Safe & Sound for a week or so in Wheaton, we’re heading…where else? The south of France! Here’s the story. A hundred years ago (well, really, more like 30 […]