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favorite things: march 2025


March was really all about the music. Five shows — five perfect evenings — with coffee dates, zine stuff, bike rides, and quiet moments spent curled up in my reading nook tucked in between all that beautiful noise. Our traditional midwest winter hibernation has thawed and it is time to get out and get loud again. Time for socializing and song and dance. It started with grimy old school punk in the sweaty attic of miniBar. Madman and The Itch and TV Preacher, who paced and glowered and bounced, like Dead Kennedys meets Stiff Little Fingers. Someone in the crowd shouted out that they dreamed one night that they were playing […]




favorite things: january 2025


Rabbit, rabbit and welcome to February. 💌 Today is Imbolc and tomorrow is forecasted to be in the 60°s ’round these parts, which has me excited about spring even though it is currently cold and windy, muddy and icy, and the crows are waltzing across grey, cloudy skies. I can’t expect February to be any other way, it is what it is… But! Brighter days are coming soon, I can just feel it! (And tomorrow’s promise of a 60° day has me giddy!)