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 […]

We live about three blocks from the ginormous Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue—the one associated with the 1968 Democratic Convention. Well, things are a lot more peaceful there these days, and we go there to work out—the health club sells memberships. A fair number of people from our neighborhood are also members. Beth swims there […]

I was one of the last kids in school to actually see Hamilton the Musical here in Chicago. Before I saw it, I was regaled again and again with frenetic excitement from those who’d just seen it. So much so that I expected that Hamilton could not possibly live up to the hype when I […]