Starting Today

There's a beautiful clear sky this morning...waning crescent moon in between fast fading "stars" Saturn and Mars. It'll be...

This morning I shared my breakfast with a cockroach. He gulped down a slice of apple, but hesitated before digging in to the oatmeal. Maybe ...

Last night I performed Handel's Te Deum with the Elmhurst Symphony and Apollo Chorus on a concert held at the University of Chicago...

Today's sunrise was foggy and vague. It looked just about how I felt. I didn't have a great night last night. A naive and unfortuna...

Today dawned clear and cold. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... As I walked to school, wind chills in the single digits made my limbs throb beneath layers o...

Well, the halcyon days of warmth and sunshine we've been enjoying lately have come to a rather abrupt end. Last night 30 mph winds blew...

Two consequences of getting a parking ticket last week: On one hand, I had to take valuable time out of my busy morning schedule to head ove...

I went out to my car this morning and discovered a bright orange parking ticket protruding from the driver's-side door. A neighbor walke...

Lake Michigan has been very short tempered this year... Just a couple weeks ago I was amazed to hear about 15 foot waves out on the water, a...

I'll be the first to admit that since I've been living here in Evanston I haven't visited downtown Chicago nearly as much as I s...

I'm sure you've all noticed by now that my blog about Lake Michigan's exceptionally high waves has been corroborated by many oth...

Current temp: 47...not including the substantial wind chill. What am I whining for? In a couple months we could very well have wind chills o...

It was just another typically gorgeous Lake Michigan sunrise... Or so I thought... Now, I've certainly heard stories about the coyote po...

What could be better than a large enclosed space where everyone is free to run, chase, and sniff their neighbors butts unassailed? A large ...