Family Man Librarian

We’ve been going through a lot of uncertainty about our move back to the Chicago area. For one thing the time it is taking to get our Indiana house ready to show to potential buyers is enormous. There is so much to do and it is overwhelming. My brothers Dan and Tim [...]

Since deciding to leave Indiana, everything has been up for grabs and life is very stressful. Michele and I have spent most of the past week trying to get our house ready to put on the market. This includes new gravel for the driveway, new glass for one of the front windows, painting [...]

I’ve been silent for a long time now. Just a note to explain part of the reason why: I have decided to leave academia once again and go back to my old job at Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. We are shopping for a house somewhere in the west or northwestern suburbs of [...]

Well, we’ve had quite a time of late. First of all, Michele and the kids were gone all last week, staying with her parents in the Chicago area. I drove up there Good Friday to stay the weekend and then drive them back home. Michele had another seizure or trembling episode the [...]

Tonight I proved the wonders of technology. I video chatted (is that a word?) with my wife and kids in the Chicago area, then video chatted afterward with my family in east central Illinois. All of this done from the comfort of my own couch at home in Indiana. Made possible by [...]

The entry title is a nod to the classic Simon and Garfunkel song…and is meant as a lead-in to an explanation of why there haven’t been many entries in this blog of late. Stuff happens. Mostly, I needed a bit of a break from blogging due to preoccupation with other matters. [...]

On one of my trips to New Zealand, I was travelling with a friend, and we had a stopover in Tahiti during the early morning hours on our way from Chicago to Auckland. We were also scheduled to make a stop in Fiji later on. I was dead tired and not thinking clearly [...]

Keegan has been on the high honor roll at his school for most of the year and as a reward, was scheduled to go with other kids from his school to Chicago for the day today. Unfortunately he became sick to his stomach last night and spent the night throwing up several times. [...]

We survived the hectic day yesterday — got the perennials planted, the lawn mowed, etc. and then drove up to the western Chicago suburbs to stay with my in-laws in Warrenville, IL. It was a beautiful day and today promises to be the same. On our way there, we passed by lots of garage sales [...]