Tuesday night, Marshall Anderson and I were at the Lyric Opera of Chicago to see Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” and I cannot remember a more moving night at the opera in my whole life. I think it stemmed from several things, not least of which was that the performance itself was superb - and the
Today, if you look out the back window of our house, this is the sight you see. . . snow on the ground and a beautiful stillness. One year ago today, a tornado touched down on the north side of Kenosha, maybe ten minutes (at the very most) from our house. Every so often, I
I do not go out of my way to watch Oprah unless there is a topic at hand which really interests me or if she has managed to assemble an array of amazing guest stars on one stage - like the Twelve Apostles, for instance. (She could probably swing that if she really put her
Yesterday was the last day of our Christmas vacation, and there was really only one order of business for the day - DO NOTHING. Actually, that’s not quite correct. We got ourselves to church in the morning and we also took our friend Jamie Wilson out to lunch - but otherwise we were bound and
We were at our friends the Conners last night with a couple of other couples, and the evening ended with one of our favorite games, “25 Words or Less,” which is only now dawning on me as a most ironic choice... for there isn’t a shy, quiet person among us and most of us would
One of our main Christmas gifts to our niece Lorelai was a two-and-a-half-gallon aquarium - plus fish to populate it, and we made sure to wait until Aunt Linda was in town to go on that much-anticipated fishing expedition. Somebody advised us to go to Have-a-Heart, which is a locally owned pet store -
