Month: June 2015

  • Chicago Vacation: Hockey

    Before we went to Chicago, I had no idea that: There was a hockey team in Chicago. The hockey team was poised to win the Stanley Cup. We stopped in Springfield on the way down, and we saw the penultimate game televised at the Bennigan’s. (About Bennigan’s. We ate at Bennigan’s because it is exotic.…

  • Thirty

    The next two weeks will be book-ended by two bridal showers for my niece, and in the middle is a trip to Chicago to celebrate our thirtieth anniversary. I can’t even remember thirty years ago. Back in ’85, it had been six whole years since Affirmed won the Triple Crown, our years began with a…