When we travel to Riverside, Illinois, you know I will spend some time trackside at the Metra station. We found a Metra train with a new paint scheme. Then a Chicago bound grain train showed up. We were there with the grandkids and the engineer of this outbound bare table train gave the… Continue reading Riverside Trains
Month: March 2018
Garfield Park Conseravtory – Chicago
On our Chicago trip today we went with our son (our daughter-in-law had performances all day) and grandsons to the Garfield Park Conservatory in west Chicago. It’s a huge building with lots of different temperature and humidity controlled rooms for different types of vegetation. As we walked in we were met my a beautiful reflecting… Continue reading Garfield Park Conseravtory – Chicago
Reading: The Final Days of Jesus by Mark D. Smith
SubTitle: The Thrill of Defeat, The Agony of Victory: A Classical Historian Explores Jesus’s Arrest, Trial, and Execution Rating:★★★★ Finished: March 21, 2018 [Image from Amazon] As the subtitle explains, this book is an historical view of Jesus’ death, not a theological one. “… this book differs from other books.… Continue reading Reading: The Final Days of Jesus by Mark D. Smith
Reading: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Rating ★★★ Finished: March 3, 2018 My review and rating – as for all my reports – reflects how I react to the book and should not be seen some sort of objective score. I did not love this book but it won the Pulitzer… Continue reading Reading: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Corned Beef and Cabbage
It was St Patrick’s Day – so of course we wore green and ate corned beef and cabbage; even though he wasn’t a canonized saint and we aren’t Catholic. But hey – tradition. We were at our post-coffee yoga hangout Friday talking about our upcoming weekend on when I got the urge for corned beef… Continue reading Corned Beef and Cabbage
