With floodwaters up to her waist A woman in Florida scrolls through her smartphone. Those devices really have taken over our lives,

We love the songs you wrought for… And all of the music you shared. The good vibes that they brought t… When a beach and your stories were… In a world that can sometimes be w…

Gil Scott-Heron a poet who made the first rap reco… said the problem with peace is that there was no money to be made in it.

Sometimes there’s just nothing to… And other times, there’s more than… But in the wake of Jimmy Buffett’… I’m going to try creating new stuf… If I were a big rock star

Assholes in traffic A Chicago fact of life They need to drive, too

The Beatles are there now; John was murdered in New York Ci… The Who are there, too; Keith Moon drank himself to death… The Doors are also halfway closed…

“We’re sorry that you’re leaving.… The hashtag was once a revolution in how people communicate with eac… Now the platform that first brough… threatens to become a shadow of it…

If you won’t be on Donald Trump’s enemies list You’re no friend of mine

July 19, 2013 Chicago, Illinois On a brutally hot night Ed stood beneath the scoreboard of the ballpark he loves

Now what was the name of that frui… Where I would go to grab lunch du… When I was working up the block? It was a single name, I think. Maybe it was Franko’s?

Gary Paulsen’s written legacy wou… without the librarian who took an… and gave him the library card that… Paulsen authored hundreds of books… which sold millions of copies

I just read something in Rolling… Written by a fan who corresponded… Now I can punctuate my thoughts j… Cool!!

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…

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…

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…