Posted in Lawrence, Rock Chalk on Apr 8th, 2008
Yes, our magnificent Kansas Jayhawks won the NCAA National Basketball Championship last night. And yes, over 40,000 people – with us, 40,003 – poured down to Mass Street last night to party “like it was 1988″ – that’s when Greg and I were college students and the last time KU won a national championship. Surely [...]
Posted in Rock Chalk on Apr 5th, 2008
The Kansas Jayhawks play the North Carolina Tarheels this evening. Soon. They will play in San Antonio, but here in Lawrence, people are losing their minds. I know, I know, it’s just a stupid game – but when you live in the very center of the game, the damn Naismith birthplace of said stupid game [...]
Posted in recipes, Rock Chalk on Mar 30th, 2008
Right now I’m about done with March Madness, as in my eyes are two basketballs and I’m reciting beer commercials by heart. Here in the final days of the Final Four there is an ugly turn toward March Mystery – will I stay sane? Does the game really hold life-altering consequences? Will we ever watch [...]
Posted in new old house, Rock Chalk on Mar 17th, 2008
Here is your day-late look at Steaming Sunday. Josie made this most excellent “DAD” mug for Greg on his birthday a few years back, at one of those paint-your-own ceramics places. Now it has a nice crackly patina and coffee rings at the bottom. It’s well-loved. The news below it, of course, is basketball news [...]
Posted in Lawrence, new old house, Rock Chalk on Nov 7th, 2007
This is my dining room. And you know, I’ve grown sort of fond of this “casual industrial disarray” look we have going here – broken nails on bare concrete, a tiger trap of electrical cords, the masculine touch of power tools and sawdust. But we only have a month or so (or less, fingers crossed) [...]
