A fierce-faced roadster, as viewed from a walkway above the Hot Wheels exhibit at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.
Howling like a wolf and playing with dirt
When I was a tike, I often romped at Northside Park in Wheaton, which is why it’s particularly special that I’m now able to take Isla there. Last weekend, she wandered over to the park’s baseball diamond and stood upon the pitcher’s mound. I expected — even hoped — that she’d then pretend to throw a pitch toward home plate. Instead, she turned the tomboy level up a notch, howling like a wolf for a minute or so before falling to her knees and exuberantly playing with dirt.
A friend recently reminded me that, when Isla was a newborn, I’d commented that I didn’t want a delicate, princess-obsessed daughter. And this is very much true. I’m thrilled to have a rough-and-tumble kiddo.
Update on the wherabouts of my old Smith-Corona
The typewriter I donated to the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library has made its way to Ball State University in Muncie, IN, where it’s part of a traveling exhibit celebrating the author’s work. The blue beauty appears repeatedly in the BSU-produced video featured here.
Green parks, brown hound
I have a story in this month’s Indiana Living Green about a new initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of America’s national parks. The piece highlights the eco-friendly efforts of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, which is where I took the photo below of my dog, Emerson. Note the nuclear cooling tower in the background. Note, too, the look of disdain on my hound’s face. I suspect he was honked at me for keeping him on a short leash.
Schadenfreude. Pure schadenfreude
NUVO Newsweekly has published photos I took at last Saturday’s Tough Mudder Indiana, a 12-mile, British Forces-designed, borderline-sadistic obstacle course. You can check out bonus shots from the event here and here and here.
