Our first vacation in a year started out pleasantly enough: easy flight to M’waukee; smooth drive to Indiana, with barely any slowdown around Chicago; and a surprisingly good dinner in Valparaiso. (After little food all day, I was hungry for something fast and cheap and bad for me, but D. wanted to try a locally […]

It’s nice to be back, especially after an extra almost two hours spent waiting on the tarmacadam in Milwaukee due to some mysterious flight ban for planes headed to Boston. Aside from my iPod’s battery being juiceless, however, it was a pleasant flight: I had some cheese curds to munch on, a couple of good […]

Fallaciousness will be on hiatus for a week while D and I make a long-overdue trip to the nation’s heartland to visit my parents, followed by a few days in Milwaukee with a good 60% of my core readership.
Meantime, enjoy my darlin’s posts, which should appear fairly regularly while we’re away.
And pray for rain […]

During the intermission, I ran into a friend in the restroom. I was asking if she and her boyfriend were looking forward to their trip to Maine with the gang next week, and she replied, “Well, see, we kind of broke up.” I felt like I’d been socked in the stomach.
It’s sad because she […]

Thursday evening, we met up with Ezra and Terri after work for dinner at Grendel’s and some movies at the Brattle. I hadn’t been to Grendel’s in, I don’t know, 8 years? All I remember is I was there with my friend Heather, whom I was pitifully crushed on, and her friends from college. I […]