I made this meatloaf recipe yesterday and had forgotten just how good it is. This is one of the best recipes you’ll find for turkey meatloaf and normally I don’t like meatloaf of any kind. Simply delicious. We had this yesterday and today for lunch. Both days we had a green salad. Today, I also…
Category: Writing
Repost: Lessons from Two Masters
I just finished helping a student finish his 10 page term paper on how Edith Wharton’s and Tennessee Williams’ lives inspired Ethan Frome and The Glass Menagerie. The truth is that both of their lives are right there on those pages, disguised as other people dealing with problems of guilt, abandonment, thwarted dreams and societal…
Seeing an “Old” Student After 5 Years
I saw one of my students today who I haven’t laid eyes on since he was twelve-years-old. He is now 17. The last time I saw him he was a lanky little boy with big feet and a shy smile; today I opened the door to a full grown young man with a beard. Wow….
Back to Work
My first student arrived at 2:30 today, my last one left 30 minutes ago at 10 pm. It is college essay time and that means back-to-back students. Plus, I have a few “regular” writing students tossed in, who need help with college term papers. I even have two plain ole kids who are coming just…
Short and Sweet
Back home. Worked. Tired. Happy. Replaying all that art, architecture and water in Chicago in my head. Lovely. More tomorrow.
Thanks, Chicago!
We are heading home early tomorrow morning so this will be very short, particularly since I have written this blog post twice and have lost it through technical difficulties both times. Ugh! Alas, all I need to say is that I have had a wonderful time for an entire week in Chicago and I can’t…
Chicago River Tour and the Art Institute
We spent an hour and a half this morning on the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s river cruise, and I must say that our docent was amazing and the view from the river of all the buildings was well worth the money spent. (Ray determined before we arrived in Chicago that joining the CAF would be very…
Chicago Architecture Tour
Ray and and I are in Chicago and we were very happy to discover that the annual Open House Chicago tour happen to coincide with our visit. This tour opens to the public many of Chicago’s most fabulous places for free. Yesterday we went to about fifteen buildings in downtown Chicago, and today we saw…
Photo Essay of A Few Pieces from the Chicago Institute of Art
Ray and I are in Chicago visiting our friend Shireen Baker and also spending as much time as possible enjoying the art and architecture of this fabulous city. Here are a few photos of some of the highlights from the Chicago Institute of Art. Suffice it to say, we are both exceedingly happy to be…
Repost: My Sister’s Eulogy and a Touching Request
Of the 1707 posts that I have written for this blog, the one entitled, “My Sister’s Eulogy Complete with a Few Jokes,” consistently gets the most hits. And today, I had a first. A woman wrote in the comment section of my blog that she had stumbled upon the eulogy for my sister in a…
20 Minutes a Day 