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There are many reasons folks don’t write. Lack of talent isn’t one of them. Format training is. Not always, but sometimes. Format training varies, but one that most of us have met is the essay-question format. The word “ESSAY” literally … Continue reading →

Folks don’t write for many reasons. Lack of talent isn’t one of them. Approval is. It must be human to seek approval, else why would we seek it? However, writing isn’t approvable. It’s renegade and messy and formless in its … Continue reading →

Some things done are difficult to undo. I learned this during a 1963 snowstorm in Elmhurst Il in the company of my brother Mark, seven years younger than me, and thus not liable in any way for the DO, which … Continue reading →

At Immaculate Conception high school during Elmhurst, Illinois’ aging 1960s, girls basketball provided a glimpse into tomorrowland, if you are optimistic by nature. Then, the rules were just like boys’ basketball except for dribbling. Girls could take three steps. Three … Continue reading →

This is the abbreviated account of the parcel. I placed an online order for a smallish product. The day the parcel was scheduled to arrive, it did not. I decided the seller was fraudulent. I decided the postal service was … Continue reading →

I can’t figure out if dialects and accents that differentiate us from each other are good or bad. I know some folks take lessons to lose their accent so they can be accepted on some level, say into a broadcasting … Continue reading →

I’m reading a nice book, anthology of short stories all written by women, all written by women not well known, all written by women who are contemporary, all written by women with superb command of language and style and substance. … Continue reading →

I grow weary of folks, a group that includes myself, using the term “innovation” in the wrong way. Whenever something is new, or fresh, or different…innovation! Innovation is NOT new or fresh or different. Innovation is communal, cumulative and calm. … Continue reading →

Commemorating Martin Luther King’s birthday is fun because dreams are always coming true, slipping in quietly like someone late to church. Today in glumpy and gloomy Chicago, I saw three of them: 1. Near his double-parked car on Wellington, a … Continue reading →

One of the nice things about the demise of print newspapers is I am content no longer that I know what I should know, what I need to know. Being a journalist, I did acquire the know-how to know newspapers … Continue reading →