When they circled the chain link fence around the old brown ramshackle house across the street, a preparation for the demolition to come, I could still hear Brother Bones whistling “Sweet Georgia Brown,” and remember that mixture of laughter and awe watching the Harlem Globetrotters on the black and white Zenith in the basement when […]
Is God a guy on a little red motor scooter?
The new Toyota sign in Wrigley Field shuts a door, but the game goes on.
Insurance is best understood over an ice cream cone. My Dad taught me that when I was 17. And like all life lessons that last, there was no grand diatribe of advice. No lessons. No lectures. You learn best not from what a person says, but from what they do. You learn from who they […]
Finding clues to a unifying love as a painter fills a space with beauty.
Scripture from the book of John.
A homeless woman walks the Chicago streets.
What if stories were the key to fixing health care?
Years from now, the sad eyed young woman in an orange dress, wrapped up against the Chicago cold in a blue goose down coat steps outside the Haitian Community Center and begins to walk to the water. Every year the quiet ceremony remembering Earthquake Day, January 12, 2010, seems to get larger. 15,000 Haitians called […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aYAUE6is7I] The tent had collapsed in the blistering rain of the Outer Banks. Miles from any kind of light but our own and we just couldn’t stop laughing. Neither of us having any business setting up a tent. Piling all our soaking stuff into the back seat. Didn’t take very long. We didn’t have […]
Was that us? Running through cool sand under 2:00 a.m. starry skies, clothes tossed along the way splashing into the sea then diving under the waves and coming up laughing shivering joy. Was that us? Not this time. Aunts and Uncles, Moms and Dads, families you were born to, families you […]