Fearful Symmetries

This house may not have the most number of lights, but it surely takes the prize for the most number of yard figures. The residents of that ...

The interior decoration of my place continues its slow pace. However, I did adorn a wall with this recently: It's a scratch off poster o...

I saw this and snagged it immediately. I suspect it will taste like the Elixir of the Gods.

 

I recently finished reading The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It's a required text for ILS 206 - or was, anyway, when Charl...

That is the name of an article in a recent issue of The Progressive and it is about my favorite grain, rye . In Southern Colorado’s San Lu...

A friend of my brother's, who is a marriage counselor, Michael Glavin, has started a podcast called Resilience in Dark Times . The overa...

While down in lovely Lombard, Illinois last week I stopped in at the Qamaria Coffee Co. outpost there and got a mufawaar for a little pick m...

While down in Chicago's western suburbs last week, I went a bit overboard in my beer buying. I had a list of brews to seek out with Gold...

Oh, hi.   Dad, can I lay on your desk right in front of your keyboard?     It sure is fun to play with my pill pocket!  

Seen in my loaner car this morning. I am referring to the action figures, not the coffee that I spilled.

"Krampus and St. Nicholas will be walking the streets of New Glarus starting at 6:00pm." Courtesy of the Rusty Raven .

Ken Burns is presenting a documentary about Henry David Thoreau come the spring. It's not clear to me what his role is in the production...

It's only early December and we've gotten about 10" of snow so far. It looks lovely outside.

I am trying to inveigle my youngest stepson into making the rounds with me instead of staying at home - alone, presumably - but he's an ...

I don't know but the waitress was really friendly. A friend and I stopped in at this fairly new restaurant over by East Towne the other...

With a polar vortex upon us, let the winter brews flow!  'Tis the season for Tippy Toboggan and Vintage has it on tap now. In addition...