The Whitney museum of American art has an amazing exhibit that we were very lucky to catch – it’s called Hypermobilty, and it is a collection of Alexander Calder mobiles. The unique thing is that in addition to there being a large number of his mobiles in one gallery space,…

We took a several day trip to NYC to look at a few colleges and to otherwise enjoy the second greatest city in the world (to paraphrase Hamilton and turn the tables on the usual second city descriptor!) before our first tour we visited the museum of the city of…

More pics from Debbie maddie and jeff’s visit. We met Sarah at yoga on the Saturday morning. Thanks for the photos, Sarah! 

We had a lovely July, great summer weather, birthdays and visitors. Here are a couple of my favorite muse, the lake. Walking path that I take to walk the final stretch to work. Thanks for landscaping this for me, facilities team!  Back patio at dark matter coffee on a weekday…

I’d like to show a few photos of our back garden, since we haven’t featured it much since the anti-rat work was done earlier this year. We’ve planted some containers with flowers and have been spending a lot of time out here. And I am thrilled to report that we…

I just wanted to share a few photos from the recent trip to Cannes and Ireland this year. As usual, Cannes was very glam, with lots of star presentations from folks like Helen Miriam, Ira Glass and Halle Berry who I ended up seated quiet close too (while being interviewed…

We all had the day off today for the 4th of July, and while Miles didn’t want to get up terribly early, John and I decided to take a bike trip north. We drove to the start of the off-road trail that leads to the Chicago Botanic Garden, and cycled…

Happy 4th of July! I thought I’d take a few moments today to share some June photos and moments. John and I went to an Illinois alumni event held in the metropolitan club at the Sears (now Willis) tower. The talk was very interesting, about rare book crimes, and the…

Better get this posted while it’s still May. First, we were very saddened by the news from Douglas this month, and hope that fond memories of Veronica will be a comfort to all who were lucky to know her. I’ve been getting our houseplants repotted, which proved to be a…

Miles had a pretty chill birthday today, since it’s his spring break he had plenty of free time. John took the day off and in addition to hanging out with Miles cycled the entire length of the lakefront trail and back again! The stats: distance 33.4 miles, average speed of…