The Ragas Report

Tales of adventure from the exciting lives of Matt and Traci Ragas

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Matt, Traci, and Clark Ragas live in Chicago.

Matt is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, though he called the Sunshine State home for over a decade before moving to Chicago. Traci hails from St. Petersburg, Florida and has never lived more than 45 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico.

Clark originally hails from - well, we aren't totally sure. We're just blessed to have him in our family. He's a "rescue dog" as we say. :)

Here is where you can learn all about our new life in the big city.

 

Anthony Bourdain at Harold Washington Library

A few weeks ago, Traci and I checked out the mammoth Harold Washington Library for the first time. As part of our poking around, we wandered into the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, and made a mental note to check out an author reading there sometime.

Yesterday we had our chance. We attended a reading by Anthony Bourdain of No Reservations and Kitchen Confidential fame. Bourdain's new book is called Medium Raw. The auditorium was already packed about an hour before the event started.

Bourdain was raw and entertaining as expected. One serious comment he made about his success did stick with me: "Two rules: I show up on time each day and I do the best that I can." He admitted this was pretty simple, but most people don't do it. 

Posted by Matt Ragas