I’m heading back to Michigan this evening. I plan to be in Ann Arbor until Saturday morning, and possibly until Sunday morning. I’ll be in the Detroit ‘burbs otherwise. If you want to grab a drink or lunch or breakfast or brunch or coffee, let me know. I fly out Sunday […]

Today I called the Met Council hotline for advice on our landlady issue. The counselor confirmed that if the lease does not explicitly forbid (or even mention) pets, she has no grounds to evict us. He recommended we write her a letter explaining that we intend to stay and we are within our […]

So our broker insisted that the dog would not be a problem with this landlord, and the broker is located in the neighborhood so we trusted her. There is no “no pets” clause in the lease, so Lizz signed it. Apparently our landlady was off on vacation and when she returned and learned […]

I haven’t spent a lot of time following music in any real way for almost a decade. One band I had heard about and never checked out is Saturday Looks Good to Me. I’ve been working out of coffee shop in Williamsburg while I wait for an Internet connection at home (Fix, 11th […]

Tuesday we packed the truck. Wednesday we drove it to east Jersey. Thursday we unloaded it into our humble abode in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I acquired swimmers’ ear early in the week which, by Friday, was an all-out infection; why must I always go ill when we move? My brother David flew […]