Posted in chicken, family, Holiday, Kansas on Jun 20th, 2009
We’re on the road this weekend, toward Western Kansas, to Abilene, to stare at some pretty country, to fret about tornadoes, to visit the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum. We toured Ike’s boyhood home, gawked at parlor chairs and portraits and sifters, trying to find out what makes great men great. Here in Mrs. Eisenhower’s [...]
Where have I been? Well, bat mitzvah weekend – not a ceremony, not a party, a weekend – blasts off in just ten days. I kept thinking it was longer; someone would say, “wow, just a month now,” and I’d wave them off, no no, much longer. Plenty of time. Then Josie would say “three [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, family, friends, writing on May 1st, 2009
I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. Emily Dickinson After more than a year’s worth of Simmer, I’ve concluded that blogging is much like phoning your family. Some days an outburst and others, just “Everything okay? Bye.” For example, I was going to tell you about [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, family, vacation on Mar 25th, 2009
We spent our spring break in Chicago, and by that I mean Josie’s spring break; as adults, we seem to have missed the memo, the one that says technically, we no longer deserve a spring break. If you just can’t shake the feeling, I recommend acquiring a school-age child. That’s at least twelve good years [...]
The Simmer Till Done management and advisory board – that would be me – is on a special-projects work break, so please enjoy these posts from the past, especially if they’re new to you. And if you have a rerun request, by all means send it along. First up: from July 2008, it’s a tale [...]
