March 2020 The night before Lisa and I were leaving Chicago, w had some fancy drinks at the Z bar.  I looked down halfway thru the drink and noticed how the garnish in my glass was making a heart on the table. Happy Father’s Day to all the awesome dads! Today, Savannah is returning home from California – where she earned her Master’s in Art history.  Brett flew out to California on Monday to drive back with his sister to...

March 2020 It was breakfast, Lisa and I were ready to leave the closed down Chicago and head back to Minneapolis.   Thank god they still had a couple restaurants still open. Breakfast was delicious, as I finished I noticed a heart shaped mushroom on my plate – pic taken, mushroom...

March 2020, Lisa and I returned from Chicago on Sunday as the news was discussing the severity of Covid-19 and then came Monday, everything in MN was shut down including the schools. Despite the shutdown, we had already planned a game night the week before with our neighbor fiends from across the street – besides the McKinlee and Oliva were not going to except no sleep over – get together was on! As I finished preparing the cheese...

March 2020 Lisa and I arrived in Chicago, Friday the 13th for the Sinead O’Connor concert. It was crazy, Friday everything seemed fine the concern of the virus was a discussion, however by Saturday they started closing the city down by end of Saturday smaller restaurants were closing and by Sunday they were all closed – even our concert was cancelled. When we went out to dinner Saturday night, I went into the bathroom and found this...

March 2020 I was on facebook and came across this pic in my news feed.  The first thing that came to mind was, it looks like its spreading – then I thought, “spreading the love!” Wish I had this piece of natural art growing on the side of my...