It’s Monday morning and I’m at my job. The workday awaits You got this one, Rob.
A controversy so strange A pandemic so costly A nation so divided A toll so devastating A solution so simple
The glittering desert oasis known around the world took on water this week. Who among us can now deny that climate change is real?
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…
At the beginning of the Christian… and the Jewish Passover celebrati… missiles rained down from the sky killing scores of innocent Ukraini… and confirming that evil still abi…
A Friday morning brings forth my… For all of the good things in life So when that song plays on the rad… To remind me of music’s soothing c… I sing right along, secure in the…
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…
July 19, 2013 Chicago, Illinois On a brutally hot night Ed stood beneath the scoreboard of the ballpark he loves
Birthday weekends are the best! Enjoy them all with verve and zest…
Voting is a privilege As well as a duty. How can it be that so many of us can’t be bothered
Assholes in traffic A Chicago fact of life They need to drive, too
Ginger or Mary Ann? Mary Ann or Ginger? Actual women don’t fit so easily into this duality
How shall I remember 2023, this fifty-sixth year of my life? Hopefully not the worst of the bun… but it did have some measure of st… My catalytic converter was stolen
Since April is National Poetry M… (#NationalPoetryMonth) perhaps this is the best time for writing Zip Odes to release my creative impulses.
All war is a crime Since it ends some lives and upends so many others. Starting a war as Putin has done
