Author Archives: sherwin-old

baseball birthday

we celebrated my 29th bday early by going to a Chicago Cubs baseball game at Wrigley field today. it was my first major league game! first, the famous wrigley field sign, and then straight to the hotdog stand. we shared a foot-long chicago-style hot dog (with all the toppings please). messy but good. i learned read more »

bittersweet goodbyes

today we helped our friends james and jana load up a big moving van as they leave chicago for a new job and home. most of our friends are here temporarily like us, trying to finish a postgraduate program. it’s a great opportunity to meet different kinds of people from all over the country, but read more »

frankfort, kentucky

we went to frankfort, kentucky for a wedding this weekend. after an early start, we stopped for coffee with our roadtrip mates sanyu and kristi, and then took a short rest in lebanon. frankfort is a quaint and historic town, dating to the late 1800′s. after the wedding rehearsal, we were treated to a dinner read more »

dump the pump

thursday is dump the pump day. support improving the environment and conserving fuel by going green and taking the bus if possible.

online junkie

i am starting to spend way too much time glued to the computer. first, this blog, which was fine, but now i’ve been sucked into the vortex called facebook, and then today i subscribed to skype. can’t really remember what i did before all this. oh wait i remember, bravo tv… i do like our read more »

street market

we’ve noticed that people like to sell various items from the middle of the road to passing cars. i suppose newspapers isn’t that surprising, but so far we’ve also seen CD’s, cotton candy, sparkly pom-pom things, and bottled water. never know what you might need on the road i guess.

our church family

meet our HPAC (hyde park alliance church) family. we are very grateful for this small but loving community.

ocean’s thirteen

i went to the ocean’s thirteen premiere in chicago! well, i didn’t watch the movie (you had to pay $2000 towards ‘Not On Our Watch’, a charity to support Darfur), but i did stand outside for three hours (i know, i’m sad) to see the stars. i did feel a bit ridiculous while waiting in read more »

R2-D2 where are you?

look, it’s R2-D2 and C-3PO! oh wait, it’s only joe and a uspsjedimaster mailbox. now if only the force would be with all our missing packages…

someting to eat?

sorry, bad pun. for a relatively uncommon last name, there sure are a lot of foods named after it. it’s making me hungry…