A fun meet-up in Chicago

I had a trip this weekend to Chicago, a city where I lived for just about the entire decades of the 70s and 80s. My wife Cinda grew up there, so we have lots of reasons to visit between family and friends. The reason for the visit was bittersweet, as I’ve mentioned previously, with the passing of my wife’s grandmother. Nana was an amazing woman and her memorial service was truly a celebration of her life and the 96 years of influences she’s passed along to the many generations that follow her.

One of the sweet parts was getting together with some of my voiceover friends who live there. It was a small gathering this time, in part because several of our voiceover number were traveling to other places this weekend. But Lou Zucaro, Tom Test, my son Eric and I did enjoy our time under the buffalo head at Ted’s Montana Grill in Schaumburg.

From left to right, this is Tom, Lou, me and Eric. As you can see, Eric and I wore our VO-BB t-shirts.

Also joining us were my wife, our 2 younger sons and one of my long-time friends and former co-worker in radio, Beverly Brennan. We had a delightful time talking about voiceover, life and topics that wandered all over the landscape.

Our entire family is going to make another trip to Chicago in the middle of June this year. We’re hoping to gather a somewhat larger crowd next time and I’ll write about more about that as the days get closer.