The Impossible Year

Tag: covid-19

  • My Desk, 11 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Being the nerd that I am, I spent Monday re-organizing and cable managing our home office while listening to Howard Zinn’s ‘The People’s History of the United States’ on audiobook.

  • Mother’s Day Meals, 10 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Given that Beth Ann’s parents are in Michigan and mine are in New York, we weren’t able to really celebrate Mother’s Day in the ways we would have liked this year. As such, Beth Ann made sourdough waffles from scratch (in our Millenium Falcon wafflemaker!)…

  • Spoken Cafe, 9 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Community is essential to me. One of the main reasons I wanted to live in Ravenswood and not downtown was because I wanted to know the local people who work in my neighborhood. Spoken is a little cafe that is a surprisingly big part of my…

  • Gidding’s Plaza – Lombard Lamp, 8 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film The Lincoln Square neighborhood is one of Chicago’s biggest German neighborhoods and tucked away in a corner of Giddings Plaza is a Lombard Lamp, which is an exact replica of ones found on the Lombard Bridge in Hamburg Germany since 1869. It…

  • Raphael & Chicago Comics, 7 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film This is my friend Raphael, who happens to be the manager of Chicago Comics. Chicago Comics has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic due to forced closures and the fact that Marvel and DC have *MOSTLY* frozen their release schedule for…

  • Care Package Delivery, 6 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Beth Ann and I have started putting together care packages of art, cookies and sourdough starter, and biking to friends homes to deliver them.

  • Lakeview Station USPS Office Mural, 5 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film My local post office in Chicago has this amazing depression era WPA mural that I always love to admire. To me it serves as an inspiration of what this country can do when we band together to take care of one…

  • May The Fourth Be With You, 4 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Last year Beth Ann and I went to Disneyland and splurged on some custom lightsabers. This year we had a mock dual on the lawn.

  • Marla and Care Packages, 3 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film I put together care packages of cookies and art and biked them to friend’s homes. Beth Ann put a Hawaiian shirt on the dog in celebration of the spring weather.

  • Honey, Bourbon, Bacon Fat, Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies, 2 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film I have been working on this recipe for years. This batch was nearly perfect. The time has finally come to make it public. Coming later this week.