Remembering Ray Bradbury
Nov 012013
Oct 242013
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 […]
Oct 172013
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 […]
Oct 132013
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 […]
Oct 062013
Appreciation of “The Child Exchange” Americans using the internet to abandon children adapted from overseas. Reuters.
Oct 022013
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 […]
Sep 252013
After baseball died. . .what replaced it?
Sep 062013
Redemption from Gary Indiana. . . .
Aug 212013
Marian McPartland in Chicago
May 052012
In Chicago, Walker’s Restaurant stood across the road from the former site of The Selig Polyscope Studios where the first Wizard of Oz Films were made. The true story of how Walker’s came to be or where it went is a story that has yet to be told.