Some people think that if you want excitement and culture, your best bet is to live in a place like Paris, France or New York City - but I had all the excitement I could handle today just in little ol’ Kenosha, Wisconsin, or K-Town as it is often called. It’s a place that’s easy
I am still shaken by something which happened tonight as stopped by the Subway in Racine. As I stood at the cash register, waiting for my sub to be finished (the clerks pretty much don’t even have to ask me anymore what I want- if I say “the usual” they know exactly what to make
Tuesday night Marshall and I kicked off our 22nd season of attending the Lyric Opera of Chicago. It’s amazing to think of how much time has elapsed and how the world has changed over that period. When we first attended the Lyric, they were just beginning to perfect a new-fangled technology called the compact disk,
Kathy and I had a maddening yet comical moment this weekend as we were working outside checking some light bulbs on our outside fixtures. (Nothing says “zany” like changing light bulbs.) As we got to our pole light in the middle of our front yard (is that what you call it?) I was industriously endeavoring
Sunday afternoon was the first concert in Carthage’s Chamber Music Series, which has been a wonderful fine arts offering for more than a decade. Groups as famous as the Juilliard String Quartet and Chanticleer have been featured, but I’m not sure that anyone has knocked our socks off like the three Canadiens who played for
It was really fun to watch Kathy and her dad working side by side yesterday . . . and not just because it meant I was watching someone else doing work that I probably should have been doing myself ! But as always, it was just fun to see father and oldest daughter in action
Yesterday Carthage bade farewell to one of the most beloved figures in its community, Alan Anderson - a graduate of 1950 who had worked for the Carthage in all kinds of different capacities in the intervening years including two stints as Acting President. It’s hard to imagine anyone who was more loved or admired. I
Kathy has been coming late to senior choir rehearsal Thursday evenings because of the graduate course she has been taking at Carthage. . . which turned out to be a good thing last night. As she drove towards Holy Communion via Sixth Avenue, she noticed several young men walking across the bridge, wearing hooded sweatshirts
Good friends of ours suffered a terrible loss this week when their beloved dog was hit by a car and killed. They live on a highway on the edge of Racine, so this has always been a very real and frightening possibility - but knowing that still does not prepare you for the moment when
It was a neat day in chapel today, with a celebration of (if memory serves me) St. Michael and the Archangels featuring a fine sermon from Pastor Stephens and a snazzy piano prelude from Mike Kruse. The high point, however, had to be a lovely performance by Carthage’s Chapel Choir, which is flourishing splendidly under
