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It never fails – when I think I have demonstrated to the world that my passion for architecture is deep and noteworthy – I do something to show just how average I am. Today, for instance, I arrived at The Rookery building for my 7-hour Wright Around Chicago bus tour. This is the lobby of […]

It’s the small things that do me in. The last-minute change to fly solo to a city I barely know was workable for me – I know how to group sites, time visits, and I definitely know how to walk miles and miles through big cities. Dinner on my own in a restaurant is fine. […]

Instead of taking our trip to Sweden and Denmark we decided, instead, to spend some time at various medical clinics and emergency rooms. Crisis averted (or at least kind of managed) and ever-willing to come up with a new plan…any plan…that gets us traveling, we substituted Chicago for Scandinavia and I got to work planning. […]

I’m flying home as I write this, taking stock of what we accomplished. This was much more than a trip to Europe, of course. But I’ve struggled with how much to talk about cancer in this blog even though cancer shapes much of our life now. But I’m going to share this today in case […]