Amish Transport
2013-01-30 – I am riding Amtrak’s Empire Builder somewhere between Columbus and Milwaukee, WI. From the looks of things, we are getting close to Milwaukee. No more farms. Suburban homes […]
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Cracked Ice
2013-01-28 – Today I’m in La Crosse, WI on business. Long day. Still working even in the hotel. I look out the window at the Mississippi River. It is largely […]
Quiet Car
2012-12-05 – The Metra North Line has two quiet cars, one at each end of the train. It wasn’t always like this. The practice has been in effect for maybe […]
Next Week’s Laundry
2012-08-12 – I’m not sure when I first became aware of Pete Seeger, but it couldn’t have been any later than the Summer of 1969, because that’s when I bought […]
Hail to the Chef
2012-08-10 – Wednesday night we ate at GT Fish and Oyster, a River North restaurant where my son Chef Nathaniel just got his first job since graduating from Le Cordon […]
I Am Eightoh9
2012-08-09 – I, Stephen David Froikin, am Eightoh9! You can call me Steve. I don’t really make a habit of using pseudonym, or do I? When I started my first […]
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