Written in Chicago on 23 October 2021
It’s Julie’s birthday The beginning of her next Trip around the sun May this day be exciting and the start of something great
A crowded street teems with touris… as Commercial Street lives up to… This surely wasn’t the case in 202… when COVID-19 stole away the sum… The idea of getting “back to norma…
Your music hasn’t aged a bit, although the rest of us surely hav… Whenever we hear your songs playin… it’s as if 1984 has magically retu… and everything that’s happened sin…
“Feels like” temperatures Don’t make too much difference On a day like this
Dozens of face masks In varied sizes, materials, and co… Were shoved into a coffee can Over the course of the pandemic. Tossing them into the garbage toda…
From the early 1980s when he won the NCAA tournament with a jump shot to NBA championships an Olympic gold medal
I’m still very angry with those who stole my catalytic converter in late February. But the money
Thanks, Bob, for making us laugh In your calm and cerebral fashion. Other performers would shout and c… But you had a different way to cas… Comedy albums are a thing of the p…
Some grade school student dropped… Fortunately, the useful life of th… I’m a long way past grammar school… So I picked up the discarded penc… Many thanks to you, unknown grade…
My home is in Chicago, and perhaps will always be. Seeing other places, sometimes, Is a form of therapy.
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.
It snowed in NOLA Ten inches fell in one day Anything can be!
A 17 year-old grabbed a weapon of war and traveled to a scene of urban mayhem. Should we really
Supporters of the former president who pack his rallies swallow his pronouncements whole and believe there was some “great”… that can be attained again
American governance is only as str… As our ability to defend it. And if (or when) it goes away We won’t ever get it back.