Because here in the United States, the global warming deniers won. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufn_pUVzZBg&hl=en_US&fs=1]
Jul 272010
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Dick Buckley–An Appreciation.
Jul 222010
What it really feels like to be searching for a job.
Jul 162010
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 lot of time, maybe just a second or two, and I wanted these last words […]
Jul 102010
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Jun 272010
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 dining room above, his introduction was winding down, and in 90 seconds, he’d get a […]
Jun 222010
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 as true as when he wrote it in 2004. . . WE CAN’T MAKE IT […]
Jun 172010
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 writer Norbert Blei’s story of Al Johnson shouting back through the phone trying to find […]
Jun 162010
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. “I think I’ll try Wisconsin. Or maybe Minnesota. I hear that they have lakes,” the […]
Jun 122010
Could thinking differently about UNITY help me find work?