On a recent trip to Field Museum, The Seven-Year-Old and I wandered into a tiny room downstairs that looks deceptively like a pleasant little reading nook. There’s a desk, a wall of butterflies, a collection of bugs trapped in amber, and rat-sized beetles. What are those things called?
Spotted this Great Blue Heron on my way to the Wooded Island a week or two ago. Related Links: The Osaka Garden on Chicago’s Wooded Island (Caterpickles)…
Next time you’re at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, take a few minutes to follow the walking trail behind the museum across the Clarence Darrow and/or North bridges.
There you’ll find Frederick Law Olmsted’s Wooded Island and the Osaka Garden, one of the few remaining remnants of the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The island has been converted into a nature sanctuary and is an important stopping point for birds migrating through the Midwest.
Self-promotion is vexing. But I did want you to know that I have a new article out today. A Kid’s Guide to Chicago appeared this afternoon on the…
Moving is a drag. But at least I have my books back.
Overheard at Bass Pro Shops… The Seven-Year-Old, excitedly: “A hot dog steamer? That’s my dream machine!” We’ll make a camper of her yet. Related Links: “What’s…
Happy Fourth of July! Despite appearances, I have not in fact declared my independence from blogging. I am still madly scribbling down The Seven-Year-Old’s questions for…
One of the wonderful things about living in our new neighborhood is that The Six-Year-Old and I get to walk to and from school every day.…
Before we moved here, I blew off Chicago winters. Boston typically gets Chicago weather two days later, and since I had lived in the Boston area for nearly 14 years, I had been through many a hard winter. I had the equipment to deal with it. I’d be fine. Then this winter happened.
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