Author Archives: Roger Wright

Dick Buckley–An Appreciation. Continue reading →

What it really feels like to be searching for a job. Continue reading →

My one and only love, It is snowing at the foot of the island. Grey skies. A winter wind of moderation. And the ship is going down, our eyes will soon feel the icy waves, so there is not a … Continue reading →

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Barack Obama, alone, leaned against the wall in the kitchen corridor underneath the Hotel Allegro in Chicago and looked at his watch. 
 Next to him, a bus cart jammed with dirty breakfast dishes waiting to be washed. In the … Continue reading →

As Walmart gets closer to building stores in Chicago– I wonder how long the lines will be? And how early I’ll need to get up to make sure I get a good place? While James McMurtry’s song still rings just … Continue reading →

Wait! Not yet! I yelled into the mythical phone line running between Chicago and the white snow heavens of Door County deep in a frozen January sun. Can’t we just have just one more breakfast? Remembering the great Door County/Chicago … Continue reading →

A seabird. Just like the one on the tiny souvenir carving her Mother, the one I never met, sent to me from Gulfport. Swoops down and lands on my back deck in Chicago on a wet hot June summer night. … Continue reading →

Could thinking differently about UNITY help me find work? Continue reading →

Before you ever heard Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn or Joe Williams sing. Such long, long long ago Sunday mornings. Warm summer breezes on Wells Street in Chicago. Late breakfast time. The musicians all there at another table. Bonnie … Continue reading →