Happy 4th of July from here in Lawrence, Kansas! Where people take the freedom to express themselves very seriously. Where people are creative with their independence. Where you can be the big kid in the neighborhood parade. Where you can stick your tongue out and be who you are. Happy 4th from all of us [...]
One of our frequent hometown haunts is Teller’s, which serves modern Italian in a one-of-a-kind restored bank building. Teller’s is only a few blocks from our house and provides great wine and just the right amount of lighting for date night. It also provides very nice prosciutto, figs and parmesan – good on any night. [...]
Happy Father’s Day to my dad, to Greg’s dad, all the other great dads out there and especially to Josie’s dad, Greg – who adores Josie, but also loves him some steak. But this is not Greg’s steak. This is a friend’s steak in a restaurant last night. We were led to a table here [...]
Posted in Lawrence on May 17th, 2008
When they set pad thai down in front of us (Josie chicken and tofu, mine beef) we always say “oh, I won’t finish that…” chicken pad thai, Zen Zero, Lawrence Kansas But somehow, it gets eaten. And eaten. When we lived in Chicago, there were good Thai places about every two feet. I ate it [...]
Posted in Lawrence on May 2nd, 2008
Other than the near-tornado we had last night (oh, Kansas) it’s been absolutely beautiful around here. So pretty that when I walk to and from downtown, I’ve been playing nature photographer. When I first saw these birds with the flowering dogwoods and the blue sky, I was all Marlon Perkins and blah blah blah, I [...]
