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Trips back to Brookline over the last few years have largely been spent in and around my mother’s kitchen. When we’re not eating there, food is being prepared for the inevitable guests. Then there is clean-up and dishwashing after they’ve left. I’ve drawn and painted bits and pieces of this room many times. This timeContinue reading “Brookline/NYC/Netflix”

For those of you who’ve been reading these newsletters this past year it’ll be old hat to hear me talk about quitting Twitter, getting rid of my smartphone, etc. but last Tuesday the Chicago Reader published a whole essay I wrote on the subject. It seems to’ve struck a chord with a few people and I thankContinue reading “Disconnecting to Connect”

I met Bill MacKay a long time ago. The first time I heard him play guitar was on the patio of Letizia’s Bakery, kitty-corner to the ugliest hospital in Chicago. I don’t remember the tunes he played that afternoon but do remember thinking he was way too good to just be a soundtrack to folksContinue reading “Bill MacKay”