We started off John’s birthday with a trip to the MCA. This cat in the style of Sue the T-Rex at the Field Museum is a recent and fun addition to their second floor. Nice installation of a circle of levitating brooms upstairs… And we really enjoyed the Howardena Pindell…

John and I went to yoga at Garfield park conservatory this morning, along with about 120 other people. Really good attendance today! It was so crowded by the time we arrived that I staked out an unusual spot – between these potted trees. All good while I was sitting, but…

We are very pleasantly surprised to note that the dibs system of saving street parking spaces is not currently in effect on our street. We’ve written about the complicated situation around dibs before, including the argument that if one’s labor is used to clear a street parking place of snow,…

Thanks to winter storm Mateo, we all had various versions of a snow day today. Miles was off school, I worked from home and John came home early after a heroic ride to work in his fat tire bike! This storm was called the 2,000 mile storm because of its…

After a long blog break, cndkmen are back with the excellent news that the kitchen is complete. I don’t think any readers will be surprised by this, but just to tie up loose ends, here are some pics. The last photo is actually news – I have started the process…

We had some exciting developments in the kitchen today Can you believe how much countertop space we have now? Then Beatrice brought us homemade tamales. Yum! 

Hope you all had a lovely thanksgiving or perfectly nice 4th Thursday in November for those readers outside the US!  Since our kitchen is out of commission, we ate out at Cindy’s Rooftop restaurant in the Chicago athletic association building. We had a couch seat right by the windows overlooking…

Today I ran the Super Sprint Triathlon – readers may remember I tried this for the first time last year: https://cndkmen.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/super-sprint-triathlon/. I am happy to say I shaved 4 minutes off my time from last year and finished 16/60 in my age group. Last year I had incorrect results at time…

Back in Chicago, John and I went to see Hidden Figures last week at Millennium Park. On the way back I caught this lovely glimpse of our very own Picasso. A couple of notes about why I’m starting this post with this particular image: first, Hidden Figures brings up so…

One NY wrap up post to do! Our last morning in NY, we went out to breakfast at a very nice place in Bushwick. Only about halfway through breakfast did we notice that the fox has 3 eyes… After breakfast we said good bye to Liam, who took an earlier…