Our New Backyard
This trail is about 200 feet from the back door of the 1924 bungalow we now have under contract. We’re thrilled about the new place and totally immersed in the logistics of moving and rehabbing, on top...
View ArticleInviting Chicago, Mountain of Care
In the beginning, there was Global Chicago. Then the Global Chicago weblog, started three years — nay, four years ago (!) this month. When I went to London for the better part of a year, it became Pea...
View ArticleMoving Day
Our new home, as of today. You can see from the listing picture taken in the snow, it’s been a long Spring waiting to get into this place. We’ve got drawings, tradesmen, budgets and such already in...
View ArticleMoving Meditations
…we’re three days in the new old house and i think i’m using everything i know… backcountry camping, financial planning, cleaning up, building out, design, meditation, meeting and greeting,...
View ArticleTerra Cotta
Well, I’ve done it again. Changed my blog skin. Not the formatting this time, just the name. Maybe it’s just the name finally catching up with the format. This blog started as GlobalChicago, a place to...
View ArticleLand Connecting
Terra Brockman, founder of The Land Connection to save Illinois farmland, sends out one of the first signs of spring around here: an invitation to RampFest. Ramps are the first edible greens to appear...
View ArticleGreening
In these last two months, we’ve gone from 40s to 80s. I think we had all of four days in the 70s and then suddenly it’s summer. A big chunk of the work here lately has been outside. Installing and...
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