Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop These are the time-honored sounds… When independence was declared fro… More than two centuries ago. But when those sounds filled the a…
We love and we laugh On this earthly voyage, Circling around the sun For an unknown period of time. The only thing we truly know
Abraham Lincoln was our first poe… who really knew how to turn a phra… but the best one of all has to do… “We can complain that rose bushes… or we can celebrate that thorn bus…
My home is in Chicago, and perhaps will always be. Seeing other places, sometimes, Is a form of therapy.
The band’s ferry got stuck in a sa… on their way to New York City on an April day in 1954 when music was changed forever. By the time Bill Haley and his C…
The highway of life winds on and on and on. We all make our way forward, sidew… and even backwards, sometimes. Yet we keep rolling along
When Donald Trump took over as pr… the United States Constitution we… from the White House’s official w… If there’s a more fitting metaphor somebody tell me what that might b…
Hey! Today marks 20K! No way!
The snow’s on its way And Christmas is, too So now is the very best time To wish “Merry Christmas” to you. May your holidays be happy
Hanging from a power line Along the Uptown parade route It’s impossible to know How they first got there And how long they have remained si…
As snowflakes drift across the Interstate before me Arctic gusts transform them into bubbling brooks and boiling cauldrons
Trump styled himself as “the fucki… Meaning he could do anything he wa… To remain in power, whatever the c… He dispatched an armed mob to our… To overturn a fair election and se…
In 1980, the 12 year-old that I o… purchased a 45 RPM single of “Em… So much of the world from back the… is gone, and will not be coming ba… But at least the Glimmer Twins ar…
Round metallic plates of various s… 10 pounds, 25 pounds, and the ferocious 45 pounder— sit patiently upon their perch, awaiting their next human encounte…
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…