This past weekend- to quote The Office- rocked my face off.To start the festivities, our lovely friends Annie and Jared came for a visit on Wednesday night (which, I realize, is not the weekend. Unless you’re 20 years old. Which I am!) and stayed through today. This is great. And I’m superbly happy that they stayed with us, as their dance card was quite full with friends and a wedding and such…that it was a good way to guarantee we’d {Read More}
Turkish appetizers and Mexican helado- must be the 4th!
July 5, 2010 By 5 Comments
As I sit here typing, I can hear my daughter’s rageful meows from the room directly above me. (Seriously, she sounds like the cats. I think they have a thing going on where they decided if they all sound alike, then we’ll come running all the time. I don’t quite get this logic, but then again- I’m neither an 8 month old human nor a 6 year old cat.) She had decided she was too tired to even hold up her head {Read More}
Thursday is the new Saturday. No, really, it is.
January 21, 2010 By 4 Comments
A brand-new graffitiesque mural has gone up in my neighborhood; it’s on the side of a building near the intersection of Kedzie and Montrose, to be exact. It is great. The word “diversity” is written (scrawled?) in about ten different languages. You know, the languages that represent Albany Park. A multitude of beautiful, happy, diverse faces are looking in different directions, quite artful, and are layered willy-nilly to show the many different colors and ethnicities of our lovely ‘hood. Fabulous. {Read More}
