The Impossible Year

Tag: corona virus

  • 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!)…

  • 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…

  • 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. 

  • Melissa Pierce, 1 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Melissa sent out a tweet that she had bought too much flour and offered some for anyone who might want it. I took her up on this and biked up to her place to pick some up. I will be making batches of cookies…

  • Ohio Moose Grub Beer Bread, 29 April 2020Polaroid OneStep 600 / Impossible Color 600 (Expired)   We took our first baby-steps into the bread baking craze with this beer bread mix we bought at an Ohio rest stop a while back. Added a can of 312 and boom, bread.