This picture isn’t really the cutest or most entertaining of the more than 150 photos (you read that right) that I took yesterday as Kathy and I spent the day with our niece Lorelai. There are cute shots of her feeding the birds in the aviary, of petting the goats, of taking the zoo train
Things were really rockin’ last night at First Presbyterian Church, site of a special season-ending Music & More benefit concert that felt a little bit like an All-Stars game. . . and Caritas (Kathy and me and our friend Kate Barrow) was thrilled and honored to be part of the proceedings. But boy, for as
You have to look very closely and carefully to see them, but they’re there. . . two of them just above the exact center of the photo (a little bit blurred) and another one (clearer) towards the top of the photo and just to the left of center. The day before yesterday was when Kathy
I wish you could have been there last night as Kathy, Kate Barrow and I rehearsed together for a Caritas performance coming up tomorrow night. Kate has been gone on vacation and just hated to leave her two beloved dogs, Pete and Grace, at home alone. . . so they came along to frolic with
I mowed the lawn yesterday. That’s not exactly a “stop the presses!” news flash in most households, but it sort of is in ours because this was the first time all spring and summer that I mowed the lawn. Lest you think we were engaged in a Prairie Preservation Project on our property until now,
It’s not often that a trip to Culver’s is truly memorable and even moving, but that’s what happened last night when Kathy and I went there for supper. It might be more accurate to say that Kathy and I and two-thirds of Racine County went there for supper. And the reason was a horrific accident
Two stars drew Kathy and me to Ravinia last night. One of them was David Hyde Pierce, famous the world over as Niles in the sitcom “Frasier.” whose song and dance talents we enjoyed on Broadway in his Tony-winning performance in a show called Curtains. The other was soprano Victoria Clark, who set all of
Just now Channel 4 interrupted its telecast of the World Track and Field Championships with news that was so astonishing, I was CERTAIN that I had heard wrong. But no, it’s true. . . the mayor of Milwakee, Tom Barrett, was viciously assaulted last night as he was leaving the Wisconsin State Fair with his
I have a millstone hanging around my neck right now, and it’s giving me one heck of a headache. It’s my office at Carthage, which had to be cleared from top to bottom in early July so it could be repainted and re-carpeted. (It was the original carpeting, which means that it was about 35
If my wife had to name her very favorite people in the world, I know that her cousin Warren would be right at the top of that list. For as long as I can remember she has spoken so highly of him, but because he lives in far off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - and
