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Jenny and Jonny: 07/01/2008 - 08/01/2008
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Life in (and around) Chicago. Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Winding Down and a Kashmiri Rug. My mom, Jenny and me at the Taj Mahal. After visiting the Taj, we ate breakfast at the Oberoi Amarvilas - which recently ranked #6 on the Conde Nast list of best resorts in the world. Mom had Dhosa, an Indian breakfast dish. Jenny had French Toast, a luxury item that we haven't had for several months. Mom (who has 11 grandchildren) petting a King Cobra at the City Palace in Jaipur. We’ve got one more week until...
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Jenny and Jonny: 04/01/2010 - 05/01/2010
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Life in (and around) Chicago. Thursday, April 22, 2010. Cooking: Art or Chore? Jonny and I go through cycles of cooking. Some weeks we are horrible at cooking, but other weeks we will cook up to 6 dinners at home. Our favorite recipes include:. Pasta with peas, asparagus, butter lettuce, and prosciutto (Bon Appetit, April ‘09). Buttermilk spice cake with pear compote and crème fraiche (BA, March ‘10). Arugula salad with caramelized onions, goat cheese, and candied walnuts (BA,March‘10). Watercress, pear,...
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Jenny and Jonny: 05/01/2008 - 06/01/2008
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Life in (and around) Chicago. Friday, May 30, 2008. May 30, 2008. Work and the Weekend! So we've been working in the office this week. Jenny has been working on a quarterly newsletter for Maitri, and I've been looking into possible ways of giving small loans to women associated with Maitri. Jenny has also put together a health related activity that she will do with the kids. She plans on taking their vitals and teaching them the importance of getting check ups. Tuesday, May 27, 2008. Our next destination...
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Jenny and Jonny: 05/01/2011 - 06/01/2011
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Life in (and around) Chicago. Saturday, May 7, 2011. Brazil, March 2011. Many of the same themes came up throughout the trip: commodities (gold, sugar, coffee, oil, and salt), sand (we were spoiled with 10 wildly different beaches throughout our trip), fruit, good food, and friendly people. Tupperware; preachers demanded that Paulistanos repent; tricksters took unsuspecting gamblers in the "three cups and a ball" game; and business people hurried everywhere. A real highlight of Ibirapuera was the Afro-Br...
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Jenny and Jonny: 06/01/2011 - 07/01/2011
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Life in (and around) Chicago. Sunday, June 26, 2011. A road trip with your in-laws? This was the response I got from co-workers and friends when I told them about my plans after finals week. “You don’t know my in-laws. I’m going to have to give them a curfew.”. Jenny's parents came to visit for a little over a week at the beginning of June. We drove through six states and Canada, visiting family, LDS Church history sites and the best of the Great Lakes and Finger Lakes regions. Once we had checked into o...
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Jenny and Jonny: 05/01/2009 - 06/01/2009
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Life in (and around) Chicago. Friday, May 29, 2009. There's no such thing as being lost in the Loire. The keyboard on which I type this post is French and requires intense focus. Hence, this posting may be abbreviated, and will have spelling errors.* *. Our trip began auspiciously when we were seated in the upper berth of an Air France 747 on our way from Boston to Paris. It's been a dream of mine since childhood, and it was finally realized. With that said, let the tale begin:. After leaving Versailles,...
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Jenny and Jonny: 05/01/2010 - 06/01/2010
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Life in (and around) Chicago. Sunday, May 16, 2010. April was a good month for Jonny and me:. My good news is that I was accepted into the nurse practioner program at the University of Illinois (Chicago campus). I will be learning the practice of two interests of mine: Women’s health and Midwifery. I start this fall. It was hard to say goodbye in the morning, but we look forward to seeing more of family and friends in June. Saturday, May 1, 2010. Spring Break in Mexico. After breakfast, we drove the hour...
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Jenny and Jonny: 12/01/2009 - 01/01/2010
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Life in (and around) Chicago. Friday, December 11, 2009. Running the Gamut of Sleeping Arrangements in England. This is the last installment from our Europe 2009 trip. Pardon my failure to keep up with it. This final post prbably seems odd coming after Jenny's post about "Chicagoland and Thanksgiving," but I want to get the last bit of our trip down in writing, regardless of whether it is chronological on the blog. Also on the drive down to England, is Glencoe, a beautiful glen (or canyon) that was the s...
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Jenny and Jonny: 06/01/2008 - 07/01/2008
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Life in (and around) Chicago. Sunday, June 22, 2008. June 16 - 22, 2008. Shillong. Tags that students taped to an AIDS awareness and support poster. Jenny, teaching kids in Shillong about HIV/AIDS. Women making bags with "loin looms" at a vocational school. Jenny and me at the Shillong Country Club. Kids at one of Mother Theresa's Orphanages. Jenny getting the Hindu Bindi placed on her forehead. A couple of disclaimers:. We walked down the main Shillong thoroughfare and did a little window shopping,.
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Jenny and Jonny: A Taste of the South
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Life in (and around) Chicago. Monday, August 8, 2011. A Taste of the South. I have good news and I have bad news.". We were hoping that my brother, Mike, would be able to fly into Chicago on Friday afternoon, July 1, and drive with us, via Nauvoo, to the bi-annual Spendlove Family Reunion in Tennessee. Mike was informing me of the situation over the phone, a few days before the trip. The good news is that I'm going to be able to fly into Chicago.". Great What's the bad news? The John Browning gun shop.