I went to post photos from the very warm long Easter weekend when I realized that just last week we had snow! We had a strangely heavy and sticky snowfall last Sunday, on April 14th, and even the next day there was still quite a bit on the ground. This…

Thanks for all the birthday well wishes for Miles, who turned 18 on Friday. He spent the day visiting Lewis & Clark College in Portland, with John joining him Friday night for a birthday dinner at Canard, a restaurant we really enjoyed during our visit to Portland last summer. Then…

What a great 50th birthday weekend! It started off with a 100K bicycle race, which was about 30% off-road, all taking place about 90 minutes Southwest of Chicago.  It started off pretty cold, crowded and foggy:        But quickly warmed up, lifting the fog as riders spread out, leaving…

I’m in India this week as part of FCB’s global conference in Mumbai, but myself and a few co-workers decided it would be more pleasant to acclimatize to the time zone in Goa rather than Mumbai, so we’re spending a couple of days there before the conference starts on Monday.…

Thought I’d post with a news roundup. First, today was one of those rare days when the tilt of the earth is just so and our dining room becomes like Newgrange or Stonehenge on the solstice and a ray of light makes its way to the inner chamber. Always exciting!…

I thought I’d do a post to share some photos I took recently and also show our visit from Maddie last weekend. Jeff dropped Maddie over Saturday afternoon and we had a lot of fun playing some new (to Maddie! Nice to rediscover for us!) games. There’s a photo from…

Quick post to announce that Miles was selected to advance to the citywide Chicago Park District Junior Citizen city finals! This is quite an honor – the junior citizen program is 66 years old and recognizes young people who are active in the parks and their community. We went to…

I had to go out for some groceries this afternoon, but between the temps rising up to zero F and this bunch of outer wear I put on, it wasn’t too bad!