With love and respect for the lives lost on 29 January 2025
We met her today and her daughter, as well But Trump and his people have made their lives hell. They embraced our democracy
Beto O’Rourke towers and Greg Abbott cowers as gun violence devours another 21 lives The gun lobby’s money
The governor of Florida at 44 years of age is threatening to unleash an endless supply of rage At those he considers as “woke”
Someone who wants to bestow a name… must typically be its creator or the one who purchased or discovere… The United States has done none o… as pertaining to an enormous body…
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…
A Friday morning brings forth my… For all of the good things in life So when that song plays on the rad… To remind me of music’s soothing c… I sing right along, secure in the…
July 19, 2013 Chicago, Illinois On a brutally hot night Ed stood beneath the scoreboard of the ballpark he loves
We might think that COVID is fi… Thirty months since it first came… The president declared the pandemi… Let us fervently pray he’s not wro… The vaccines were designed to help…
My Grandpa was Irish Or at least his parents were So every year we went to Grandma and Grandpa’s house for corned beef and cabbage.
All of the hard work and even harder hits that Marion Barber III endured resulted in fame, riches, and an adrenalized lifestyle
A controversy so strange A pandemic so costly A nation so divided A toll so devastating A solution so simple
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
How shall I remember 2023, this fifty-sixth year of my life? Hopefully not the worst of the bun… but it did have some measure of st… My catalytic converter was stolen
When the sun shines on Friday mor… Especially in the Spring It reminds us of what good things The coming day can bring. So offer the people you encounter
My home is in Chicago, and perhaps will always be. Seeing other places, sometimes, Is a form of therapy.
