Every weekend, a Chicago FM station called WXRT does the Saturday Morning Flashback. All morning, the DJ plays noteworthy music from a given year. A couple weeks ago the year was 1973, and among the songs played was Frank Zappa’s “Montana.” You know, the one where he’s going to be a dental floss farmer. What […]

Beth got a lot of reaction from her post about being hassled by a creepy guy, and having Whitney and a Good Samaritan banker help her. Apart from the comments, there were a lot of phone calls and in-person talks. Some expressed surprise and regret at having never thought about what being in a situation […]

Y’all have to know by now how I feel about Chicago’s North Side baseball team. Attending a game at Wrigley a couple weekends ago didn’t change anything. For all the improvements that have been made at Wrigley Field, one remains undone: Getting rid of that hideous chain link fence at the top of the outfield […]

Well, I made it back from a week in Alaska in one piece. A little sore, but I had no bear encounters, no ankle sprains, just some stiff joints. (I did see a moose.) Where to start about Alaska? I saw some tiny bit of it but even the tiny bit of it seemed endless—mountains, […]

A week ago this past Saturday, Beth and I took the Amtrak to Milwaukee, snagged a Zipcar, and visited Gus at his group home in Watertown, Wisconsin. We stayed the night, and I took an earlier train train back than Beth did, as I had to fly out for a business trip. Amtrak reserves a […]