I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
TYOLD Travelogue: The Reunion
Back on Day 119, my Differently for the day was making arrangements to go to my 30 year high school class reunion. I went a few weeks ago and thought I would use that to kick off a travel series of Differentlies as I head off to Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Savannah,...
ECAN Over the Edge Volunteer Call to Action
Hi everyone! I need your help! I have volunteered be a co-chair of a fundraising effort to be held in May of 2015 for the Esophageal Cancer Action Network. We will be organizing an Over the Edge event, where people raise money for the opportunity to rappel down the...
TYOLD May 26, 2014: More Pigs & Random Tourism
I had planned on driving over to Dubuque, Iowa today to see a friend from high school (hey Patty!) but wound up not for several reasons. First, they were forecasting some bad weather for this afternoon and I just pictured myself huddled in a ditch somewhere next to a...
TYOLD May 25, 2014: Pigs
Sunday, May 25, 2014 More food porn of the pig variety. There's this place in Chicago called The Purple Pig. It's on Michigan Avenue in the thick of things and it has gained a great reputation for it's inventive interpretations of everything pork (and other stuff,...
TYOLD May 24, 2014: Outsiders, Leather, Loco Burgers, and Loot
Saturday, May 24, 2014 Day three in Chicago involved a couple of offbeat museums and more amazing food. I started the Inuit Museum of Intuitive and Outsider Art, which for those who don't know is usually dedicated to exhibits by untrained artists, folk artists, people...
TYOLD May 23, 2014: Chicago Food Porn
Friday, May 23, 2014 Chicago day 2 started later than I had anticipated due to the aforementioned drinking and carousing the night before, but I still managed to get up and out in enough time to get things done. Stop #1 was an old favorite, Hot Doug's, a famed...
TYOLD May 22, 2014: Upgrading
Thursday, May 22, 2014 Back to doing some different, just because I'm off to Chicago and felt like it would be easy to stick in my rut of what I usually do when I go to Chicago - drink and carouse a lot. So started the trip with something I have always wanted to do...
On a Break
Obviously, the Year of Living Differently has come to a bit of a standstill. There are a bunch of different reasons for this. First, I got busy. As I mentioned in a previous post, I sold an idea for a TV movie and I basically have about 3 weeks to turn that idea...
TYOLD Day 123: Crash Course
I've been terrible about updating the blog lately. I'm still actively doing "Different" stuff but I have been either too busy or too lazy to write about it. So today I went to go post the last few days worth of stuff and.... the website was there. Gone. History....
TYOLD Day 122: Dragged Into the 21st Century
I've been flying a lot lately - to Vegas already three times this year and heading to Chicago in May, perhaps Europe in June or July, and then to Iowa in August. Before I get to my main point of this post, let me mention that the $85 I spent to get the TSA Pre-Check...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.