We had just gotten the kids settled, sitting cross-legged with us on the carpeted floor in a semi-circle, when the two secret service guys, laser eyed tree trunks in suits, led Rosalyn Carter through the locked doors of the Ward to the single chair at the front of the room. The building where this happened, […]
Homeless memories.
Remembering Ray Bradbury
Cassie is the name I’ve given to the homeless woman who walks by our house, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house, early every morning and returns by the very same route every evening. Sometimes, when the weather is bad, I have seen her take shelter in the Sulzer Regional Library. A haven for many of […]
I am Rich Christian. I drive the runaway train. Down the tracks, sliced through time. Every year in October, when you hear some story of a ghost train rumbling with no one at the helm? When someone mentions an unexplainable journey? One that makes no sense at all? Then you can know I am up […]
Kate Warne was the nation’s first female detective. She died at 38 of congestion of the lungs and is buried in the Pinkerton family plot in Graceland Cemetery Chicago. Where every October she gets a visitor who comes to say “Thank you.” I’m Kate. My last name? The gravestone says Warn. No […]
Appreciation of “The Child Exchange” Americans using the internet to abandon children adapted from overseas. Reuters.
Graceland Cemetery in Chicago is the final resting place of a collection of both known and unknown souls from the worlds of commerce, the arts, sports and government. And whether it’s the autumn breezes, or the inspiration of Edgar Lee Master’s classic book “Spoon River Anthology,” it’s under the “Ghost Moons of October” that the […]
After baseball died. . .what replaced it?
Redemption from Gary Indiana. . . .