I choose CALEB! 🐻⬇️

Walking to work this morning… “You say, one glove, one life When it's one need in the night One glove, we get to share it Leaves you baby if you don't care for it” ~ Apologies to Paul David Hewson (Bono)

Excited to see Elvis Costello at Chicago theatre tomorrow. We see him same date, time and place every 27 years! Can’t wait until tomorrow and saving up for our 2052 tix!

Three dozen years of marriage, three dozen roses!

Every so often, barter is acceptable

Just your everyday radish and butter sandwich with chips and salsa for lunch 😶

When you snag second row balcony seats for Nick Cave, only to sit behind the “We’re gonna stand the entire show from the first row” couple in front of you!

Walk home in shorts and snow flurries

Bought our home 31 yrs ago this week, and the same week, a neighbor threw out this table, which I garbage picked and had refurbished. A couple weeks ago he commented that he has nothing left of his parents & regrets it. So tonight, for his 65th birthday, I giving him back his father’s nightstand!

Manny’s Deli in Chicago did me right yesterday #chicago

Finally a glimmer of good news. The podcast @heavyweight.bsky.social has found a new home with Pushkin. So thrilled to have the talented team back!

Amazing performance by Yamato ~The Drummers of Japan at the Mcaninch Arts Center, College of DuPage Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Incredible energy and talent.

Tonight is Blackhawks organist Frank Pellico's final game. As a lifelong fan, chatted with him numerous times at the fan convention, I wish him as much happiest in retirement as he provided us with his talent! #ChicagoBlackhawks

Businesses, organizations, products..enough with the surveys already. Just take my money and shut up. Seriously, you don't act on my opinions so stop asking...

Nice to wake up to a beautiful morning…short weather today! Good morning ☀️

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Immigrants in Chicago 1928. My maternal grandparents, 16 yrs old on Chicago’s Oak St beach. They migrated from France & Italy. Chicago was built with and richer because immigrants. I’m a proud Polish Italian French mutt of an immigrant. We are ALL immigrants! (Except my indigenous friends 🤍)

In between deadlines I made up two batches of Sweet Potato soup, 🍲! 12 bags, 36 servings. And near 0 degrees, perfect weather. Soup vault nearing capacity once more!

🤣 Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing! — Carl Sandburg #chicago

Sunny ☀️ Chicagoland morning, what shorts do I wear today? 🤔😎

Finally back to replenishing the soup vault. A roasted Poblano pepper Yukon Gold potato soup. Not that visual but the smell 🤍

I went to the doctor today…. without anyone telling me to.

Woke up at 4:45am to this shadow on my ceiling…I thought I had deleted this shadow. 😡

Youngest taking MCAT today, positive vibes please

Snowing and cold, what’s not to 🤍 about Chicagoland winters? Even better with soup! Slowly depleting my soup vault…Broccoli Cheddar fits this Friday right! Good weekend to all!

My wife has been away caregiving for three plus weeks now and each day I’m improving my “spoil the youngest” with breakfast routine (Chocolate croissants) 🙃

Love how spaces change as the seasonal light changes…this morning cast some ethereal shadows as the sun rose ☀️

I have grilled elk every night this year! Daughter heading home to Montana tomorrow, had to do one more dinner from her elk before her departure. Delicious. Think we will do elk the rest of the year!

Down "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane...2021. Enjoy the Season! #christmas

Relieved to be at the end of the “could you just photoshop these pictures for our Christmas card?” season!

Down "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane...2020. Enjoy the Season! #christmas

I “hunted” today out west in Elburn IL at Reams Meat Market and came home and “killed” these stuffed pork chops at home!

Down "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane...2019. Enjoy the Season! #christmas

Another 1st edition Xmas book I gifted our kids yrs ago ~The Christmas Tree Ship~ written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter. True story “Rouse Simmons,” aka the “Christmas Tree Ship,” which perished in Lake Michigan full of Xmas trees for Chicago. Love this story & the gorgeous illustrations. #xmas

Down "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane...2018. Enjoy the Season! #Christmas

Little NYT recipes dish, Orange Cranberry Chicken!

I used to hit Chicago bookstores this time of the year to find first-edition Christmas books for our kids. Two kids have this treasure, Howard Finster’s “The Night Before Christmas.” Most know Finster’s album cover designs for REM & Talking Heads. The illustrations and hand-lettering are joyful!

Down "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane...2017. Enjoy the Season! #christmas

Bears Vikings tonight. My cousins are there, drove up from the western 'burbs. One is rocking this jersey tonight. We are related... please do not hold that against me. #chicagobears

Down "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane...2016. Enjoy the Season! #christmasmusic

Down "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane...2015. Enjoy the Season! #xmas2024

Down "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane...2014. Enjoy the Season! #Christmas

Down "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane...2013. Enjoy the Season! #xmas

I’ve dreamt of a 🥶 day like today since early September. Spent the fall making tons of soup, leftover produce from my volunteer work. With this cold, I’m finally breaking into my soup vault! 🍲 🤍

Gonna see if the management company is in the Christmas mood with my maintenance request! 😏 🎅🏼

Down "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane...2012. Enjoy the Season! #christmasmusic

Good morning ☀️

This is the time of year I used to drag some of my corporate clients for a year-end thank tour to Calumet Fisheries and then to Three Floyd’s 🍺 Covid killed that experience in 2020, rumors of the brew pub reopening keep me alive dreaming about that Scotch egg and their Poutine. 🙃 #beer

Down the 2011 "Christmas Mix" Memory Lane again...not a repeat, but a second disc from that year. 2011 was a difficult year, and so I buried myself in music. Enjoy the Season! #christmasmusic