I love food, and in Chicago there are no shortages of places to eat. There is no way to visit every place, so when a handful of new places I like open up around each other, I like to organize a little neighborhood crawl. It’s like a bar crawl but with food (and a few drinks). The intent isn’t to […]
I may play it cool but I love celebrating birthdays. And when you’re a kid, birthdays are like a mid-year Christmas. Huge parties, friends everywhere, running around, gifts and CAKE. As you get older, the birthday parties change a bit. Then, once you hit college and/or 21 (whatever comes first), it begins the next phase of celebrating, which involves copious […]
The last week (nearly two) have not been exactly what I had in mind. I had wood burning pizza class plans, drinks and dinners with friends, work to do and a quick work trip to do too. The last thing still happened but overall, I have lost almost two weeks to (what I now refer to it as) the plague. […]
Of all my solo vacations, one of my favorites was Napa Valley. It was my second solo vacation and the longest (at that time). And for seven days, I rotated between wine tasting, dining out, walking around and being deliciously buzzed. It was heaven. And, two years after being in Napa for the first time, I got to go back, […]
Aristophanes, The Clouds