Written in Chicago on 23 October 2021
When Donald Trump took over as pr… the United States Constitution we… from the White House’s official w… If there’s a more fitting metaphor somebody tell me what that might b…
American governance is only as str… As our ability to defend it. And if (or when) it goes away We won’t ever get it back.
We might think that COVID is fi… Thirty months since it first came… The president declared the pandemi… Let us fervently pray he’s not wro… The vaccines were designed to help…
Trump styled himself as “the fucki… Meaning he could do anything he wa… To remain in power, whatever the c… He dispatched an armed mob to our… To overturn a fair election and se…
Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River… was published more than a century… Its enduring popularity derives fr… telling truths about the human con… The most compelling message of all
It’s Monday morning and I’m at my job. The workday awaits You got this one, Rob.
If Antarctica continues melting as science suggests it will does this mean that all of humanit… And who that is living among us no… will get to see the answer to this…
Hanging from a power line Along the Uptown parade route It’s impossible to know How they first got there And how long they have remained si…
In 1912, Jacob Wesley Wilbur who had made a fortune selling lan… bought hundreds of acres for himself and some others along the Atlantic Ocean
Since April is National Poetry M… (#NationalPoetryMonth) perhaps this is the best time for writing Zip Odes to release my creative impulses.
Ron DeSantis governs a state That feeds on the Disney brand Disney World theme parks Are known throughout the land So when he attacks the company
Three 9-year-olds were slaughtered… Because the Second Amendment Gives the false impression that Owning guns is an unfettered right For nearly any person who wants to…
As Putin the Terrible sends his Russian troops Into the sovereign nation of Ukra… We must make a commitment to assist our democratic partners
Target: Sunshine State Idalia’s in the Gulf. It’s time to prepare.
Birthday weekends are the best! Enjoy them all with verve and zest…
