Several years ago I encountered a… idling away as it waited to pick u… at a community center in suburban… I walked past the bus and observed its large exhaust pipe spewing

Here’s my pocket poem for the year 2024. Since I’ve written it myself I hope that it won’t be a bore. Three stanzas are all I’ve got

How do you mourn for a relative that you never got to meet? It’s really not that hard to do. First, you must realize that all o… are “related” in some form or fash…

A New York representative named… Lives in a reality that’s been for… And since Kevin McCarthy needs h… Republican hypocrisy now feeds him On his falsehoods the press will e…

Voting is a privilege As well as a duty. How can it be that so many of us can’t be bothered

Stevie Nicks is 76 Billy Joel is 75 They played a show at Soldier Fie… I’m glad they’re still alive

As he calmly read his speech announcing his submission It was clear the Dems have no lea… to offer up real opposition. Now Trump and Elon will have the…

We have come to equate “fortune” w… as in “that outfit must have cost… but its real meaning is more abstr… Whenever the Roman goddess Fortun… it meant that things went well for…

His football team wore gold and bl… For the city that makes our steel Success was the fruit of their lab… Four Super Bowl trophies are real

A long way from Mt. Pulaski on this cold, Illinois night. The Interstate is reaching out to Kris and Chuck, near Dwight. Dwight is far behind them now

He rages, seethes, intimidates to keep the world on edge. His social feed, it dominates and serves to drive a wedge. He makes his opponents cower,

With snow in California’s mountai… and trees falling down from the sk… climate change is the new normal and we don’t need to wonder about… The planet is tired of our bullshi…

He arrived as a young man With no life experiences outside o… Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois Where he was born and raised. It was here that he witnessed huma…