Tag: writing
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“Chicago, Chicago, That Todd’ling Town”
Stef and Stan in the Second City, Part 6 August 29, 2026 Last day in Chicago. We’d made a date with Kris (a fellow Road Scholar we met on a tour of southwest France four years ago). Kris, and her husband, Jim, live in a Chicago suburb and agreed to spend the day with us.…
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Abroad at Home, Part 4
The Wright Stuff Tuesday, August 4, 2026 Back in 2018, Stef and I took a mini-vacay to Chicago. We took in the South Side, visited the campus of the University of Chicago and toured the Robie House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Some of the photos in this post are not mine.) It was totally…
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Abroad at Home, Part 3
Home is Where the Art Is July 23, 2026 The last time we did one of these “Abroad at Home” posts was (you may recall) when we visited Boston for the John Singer Sargent exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in December 2023. Full disclosure: none of the photos in this blog are mine.…
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Snow Bird Interlude, Part 2
Stef and Stan in Sarasota, continued… Monday, February 9, 2026 Oh, before we continue, a correction: The body of water on which our apartment looks out…. …is the “Intracoastal Waterway,” not the “Intercoastal.” My bad, sorry. On Friday (February 6) our friend, Randi, arrived from Boston to hang out with us for the weekend. The…
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If it’s October, it must be Belgium (#7)
The Musical Instrument Museum Tuesday, October 22, 2025 Tuesday was somewhat problematic. We ran into some technical problems (washing machine, computer) that absorbed most of the morning. But all got fixed. In the afternoon, we visited the Musée des Instruments de Musique, or Muziekinstrumentenmuseum, or MIM. It’s in the Upper Town, near the Royal Palace.…
Something to Declare 