A church gets a mysterious visitor and begins to heal as Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy sing.
Aug 292010
Aug 222010
Grandfather Youseef. No one knows him by any other name. He pulls his hands out of the hot soapy dishwater in the back of the Pakistani restaurant on Devon Avenue in Chicago on a hot and tired August night. He looks down from the map of Pakistan flashed by CNN on the crackling television bolted […]
Aug 122010
On this 71st Birthday of the movie “The Wizard of Oz.” Something very strange just happened. A molten steel force of heat slaps the face of a simmering city of Chicago. So three lonely souls spotting separate shady benches in Oz Park, a respite of green on the north side of the city, all take […]
Aug 112010
She arrived in Chicago on a slushy cold February day in 1947. A friend had told her to look up a writer named Algren. And in the tour of the underbelly, mean streets, dive bars in the Polish neighborhood of the city, and the walk back through the bitter wind to his tiny warm apartment […]
Aug 082010
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Aug 062010
Excerpt from: “FINDING WORK WHEN THERE ARE NO JOBS” From Part Two: Telling Your Story Chapter 4 INTRODUCTION Do you act differently when no one is watching? That’s a pretty tough question to answer honestly. How would you know? But what if you could know? Think of the self-awareness that would occur if you knew […]
Aug 032010
O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Psalm 95:1 Nothing to eat or drink after midnight tonight because the surgery is tomorrow. That means no milk. And milk is the brave and strong little girl’s favorite. So sing out in prayer that […]
Aug 012010
Excerpt from: “FINDING WORK WHEN THERE ARE NO JOBS” From Part Three: Adding Music Chapter 7 INTRODUCTION All of us have musical memories. Where we were when a song played. Remembering the words to songs from childhood. Music remains after much else has been forgotten. As you read this selection, consider the power of music […]
Jul 302010
A gentle evening rain bathes the harbor docks of Liverpool as a single bass note foghorn sings to the mist. And a salty ocean breeze from beyond boundaries of time and visibility sails in the spirits of the two musicians. “Paul’s house. His bedroom on the second floor, the one with the light still burning,” […]
Jul 272010
Her glass eye never bothered me. But killing me off with a heart attack? That was a problem. This is a true love story because I was looking for true love. Or, like the previous marriage, some reasonable facsimile. But the bright sunlight of truth fades to shadow for this story. Not just because it […]