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Life advice - unsolicited, but here you go:
1. There is no substitute for an amazing therapist (ideally, a hybrid psychoanalytical psychologist); and
2. Exfoliate + moisturize at least once daily.
You’re welcome.
Life advice - unsolicited, but here you go:
1. There is no substitute for an amazing therapist (ideally, a hybrid psychoanalytical psychologist); and
2. Exfoliate + moisturize at least once daily.
You’re welcome.
At Kolasa’s Polish Peasant in Michigan City. My server calls me “darlin’” and I am 3 Angry Orchards in. 😂 Next up: the stuffed cabbage.
This place fucking rocks. Really glad it’s only a short walk back to the apartment…😂
This place fucking rocks. Really glad it’s only a short walk back to the apartment…😂
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
At Kolasa’s Polish Peasant in Michigan City. My server calls me “darlin’” and I am 3 Angry Orchards in. 😂 Next up: the stuffed cabbage.
This place fucking rocks. Really glad it’s only a short walk back to the apartment…😂
This place fucking rocks. Really glad it’s only a short walk back to the apartment…😂
Michigan City (IN) Public Library, Helmut Jahn, 1977.
October 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Michigan City (IN) Public Library, Helmut Jahn, 1977.
On the beach at Michigan City (IN) an hour ago.
October 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
On the beach at Michigan City (IN) an hour ago.
I prefer these fresh-baked, but there was a Meijer nearby and the late bakers Rich & Jane Steenstra were my childhood neighbors in Michigan….so I can’t just leave them on the shelf as I pass by. 🇳🇱
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I prefer these fresh-baked, but there was a Meijer nearby and the late bakers Rich & Jane Steenstra were my childhood neighbors in Michigan….so I can’t just leave them on the shelf as I pass by. 🇳🇱
Some of these older South Shore Line trains are pretty damn cozy…
October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Some of these older South Shore Line trains are pretty damn cozy…
My view from the balcony in Hamburg-Nienstedten of the Elbe River and passing “traffic” en route to the Baltic on May 17, 2017.
October 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My view from the balcony in Hamburg-Nienstedten of the Elbe River and passing “traffic” en route to the Baltic on May 17, 2017.
This morning, at Miller Station, as the outbound South Shore train arrived to whisk me and my bike to Dune Park, two stations and 12 minutes to the east, while a minimally-delayed inbound train departed from the opposite platform.
October 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This morning, at Miller Station, as the outbound South Shore train arrived to whisk me and my bike to Dune Park, two stations and 12 minutes to the east, while a minimally-delayed inbound train departed from the opposite platform.
A forlorn Wells Street Beach concession house in Miller Beach (Gary), Indiana, seasonally abandoned until next summer.
October 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A forlorn Wells Street Beach concession house in Miller Beach (Gary), Indiana, seasonally abandoned until next summer.
The City as seen from Marquette Park Beach in the Miller Beach neighborhood of Gary, Indiana.
October 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The City as seen from Marquette Park Beach in the Miller Beach neighborhood of Gary, Indiana.
Just another morning in Miller Beach…
October 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just another morning in Miller Beach…
Post-sunset panorama video, tonight @Vermillion Street Beach, Miller (Gary), Indiana.
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Post-sunset panorama video, tonight @Vermillion Street Beach, Miller (Gary), Indiana.
Post-sunset panoramas tonight @Vermillion Street Beach, Miller (Gary), Indiana.
October 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Post-sunset panoramas tonight @Vermillion Street Beach, Miller (Gary), Indiana.
It’s Miller (Beach) Time! 2 of 2
October 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
It’s Miller (Beach) Time! 2 of 2
It’s Miller (Beach) Time! 1 of 2
October 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It’s Miller (Beach) Time! 1 of 2
Silver Fox (not pictured) is in there now getting the Igor treatment
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Silver Fox (not pictured) is in there now getting the Igor treatment
There is not! I first saw it last June when I took a Pilsen sublet before my Albany Park home became available. Then in October we visited during Open House. The use of brick in such a magnificent yet understated fashion reminds me of similar churches in Northern Germany and the Netherlands. My pix:
October 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There is not! I first saw it last June when I took a Pilsen sublet before my Albany Park home became available. Then in October we visited during Open House. The use of brick in such a magnificent yet understated fashion reminds me of similar churches in Northern Germany and the Netherlands. My pix:
Quote of the evening
Sonja, friend of 30+ years:
“Dennis, your family just does not have the skill set to be in a happy relationship with you.”
Dennis: 💡
Pictured: Sonja and Dennis (a freshman, having packed on the “freshman 15” from cafeteria food) as college friends.
Sonja, friend of 30+ years:
“Dennis, your family just does not have the skill set to be in a happy relationship with you.”
Dennis: 💡
Pictured: Sonja and Dennis (a freshman, having packed on the “freshman 15” from cafeteria food) as college friends.
October 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Quote of the evening
Sonja, friend of 30+ years:
“Dennis, your family just does not have the skill set to be in a happy relationship with you.”
Dennis: 💡
Pictured: Sonja and Dennis (a freshman, having packed on the “freshman 15” from cafeteria food) as college friends.
Sonja, friend of 30+ years:
“Dennis, your family just does not have the skill set to be in a happy relationship with you.”
Dennis: 💡
Pictured: Sonja and Dennis (a freshman, having packed on the “freshman 15” from cafeteria food) as college friends.
Still earning that solid F on my selfies 🤷🏽♂️🤣
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Still earning that solid F on my selfies 🤷🏽♂️🤣
13 years??? 75 trips??? 59 reviews - all five star???
I know lots of people hate Airbnb, but I was an early fan (living and working in SF at the time of their launch) and have had maybe 2-3 bad experiences in those 75 stays. Seriously.
Here’s to 75 more!
I know lots of people hate Airbnb, but I was an early fan (living and working in SF at the time of their launch) and have had maybe 2-3 bad experiences in those 75 stays. Seriously.
Here’s to 75 more!
October 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
13 years??? 75 trips??? 59 reviews - all five star???
I know lots of people hate Airbnb, but I was an early fan (living and working in SF at the time of their launch) and have had maybe 2-3 bad experiences in those 75 stays. Seriously.
Here’s to 75 more!
I know lots of people hate Airbnb, but I was an early fan (living and working in SF at the time of their launch) and have had maybe 2-3 bad experiences in those 75 stays. Seriously.
Here’s to 75 more!
My kind of town (Chicago is)
October 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My kind of town (Chicago is)
Out on the trails of Tinley
October 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Out on the trails of Tinley
Day #2: all alone on the Brown Line (although I suspect this *may* have something to do with it being 5:20 am). Boarded at Kimball as I do w/my bike (to scope out best possible seat while there’s standing time to do so). Still no one with me here in the third car and we’ve just left Southport (!).
October 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Day #2: all alone on the Brown Line (although I suspect this *may* have something to do with it being 5:20 am). Boarded at Kimball as I do w/my bike (to scope out best possible seat while there’s standing time to do so). Still no one with me here in the third car and we’ve just left Southport (!).
Totally alone on the Brown Line. Heading to Kimball from Quincy, it cleared out at Fullerton and remains empty on the flyover.
October 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Totally alone on the Brown Line. Heading to Kimball from Quincy, it cleared out at Fullerton and remains empty on the flyover.
Pratt’s Castle, Elgin, IL, photo taken by me this afternoon. I have biked by this several times this year (the Fox River Trail passes by it directly), but never has the light been so favorable as it was today.
October 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Pratt’s Castle, Elgin, IL, photo taken by me this afternoon. I have biked by this several times this year (the Fox River Trail passes by it directly), but never has the light been so favorable as it was today.
Butera Supermercado on the south side of Elgin (not quite South Elgin; there’s a diff) has 16-oz cans of Low-Cal Sprecher Root Beer at the low price of 2/$3. No aspartame! I know I should be more discerning re the other ingredients, but aspartame has rung my internal alarm, it seems, for decades.
October 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Butera Supermercado on the south side of Elgin (not quite South Elgin; there’s a diff) has 16-oz cans of Low-Cal Sprecher Root Beer at the low price of 2/$3. No aspartame! I know I should be more discerning re the other ingredients, but aspartame has rung my internal alarm, it seems, for decades.