Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just passing 2:15 a.m. in "The City."

Today, there is joy in Chicago and GH, the Cubs took it to the Cardinals in St. Louis and took away their home field advantage with a 6 - 3 win late yesterday. Monday the NLDS series resumes in Chicago at a time to be announced based on the results of the ALDS series games.

Elsewhere in sports, the 5 - 1 Wolverines of Michigan resoundingly defeated the now 5 - 1 Northwestern Wildcats 38 - 0. The Wolverines only loss this season was the opener against the Utes of Utah, 17 - 24. The MSU Spartans slipped past the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers, 31 - 24 in a game that should have been a stronger showing for a Spartan squad that is expected to go undefeated this year. While they are now a 6 - 0 team, they are likely to move down in the national rankings, again. Don't forget, next Saturday, it is MSU versus Michigan. at 3:30 p.m. The Huskies of NIU, in a lopsided win over Ball State, won 59 - 41, but those 41 points scored by the Cardinals of Ball State were not a good sign for a supposedly strong Huskies defense.

We got out late yesterday morning for a walk to the farmer's market with STWD. We took a different route that allowed the intrepid one to read new messages and return some that she felt were needing an immediate response.

We had a light lunch in anticipation of the Cubs game at 5:30 p.m. EDT. Then we ran some errands that included a stop at our favorite east side watering hole. Home at last, we fed the weather dog and then settled in for that Cubs game with a dinner of chopped vegetables with ranch/blue cheeses dressing, cauliflower with hot sauce and that same dressing, and a veggie hot dog. I think I mentioned that the Cubs won, 6 - 3, over the St. Louis Cardinals, the team with the best record in the regular season, and the team that won the Central Division of the National League with 100 wins compared to the Cubs 97. Then I was ready for bed.

I did start a new book entitled The Wolf in the Parlor, by Jon Franklin. So far, I like it. Additionally, Mary and I have nearly finished Hemingway's Paris: A Writer's City in Words and Images, by Robert Wheeler. The book contains superb black and white images of the places that influenced Hemingway during his extended stay in Paris of the early 20th Century. The author's commentary accompanies the images. Once again, I believe that everyone needs to see Paris.

Today, the sun will rise at 7:53 a.m. Not ironically, the Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises, his book that profiles the Lost Generation of expatriates living in Paris of the 1920s, is on the shelf awaiting our reading. I may have to revisit more Hemingway to get to the flavor of the man and his life.

We have nothing planned today except for the morning walk with STWD and perhaps a matinee performance of Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball, presented by Grand Haven's own Central Park Players. I have it on good authority that this is an adult's only type of play.

Later, the sun will set at 7:09 p.m. Ciao.