alas, no taylor swift tickets to be had.  but plenty of fun at the lincoln park zoo and at clinton kelly’s “make over america” fashion show, terrific meals at rosebud, (so good, we had to go to carmine’s, too) foodlife, homer’s (with margaret!), toast, oak tree, tony afternoon tea at the four seasons and the ritz-carlton, and genuflections at our favorite stations of the shopping cross: art effect, isis, lori’s shoes, paul frank, anthropologie (this just in: they’re opening a new location on state street, that great street, to be co-managed by my pal ashley) mexican shop, and of course, american girl place.  (which is even more fun when you’re all frango‘d up.) 

one thing i love about my hometown: i always know what time it is.

can’t wait until it’s time to go back.