Rhyme Of The Day

My GPS claims I ran 25.7 miles today. I think I'm now fully prepared to run a marathon. I still haven't decided which one to do. Whe...

Dream Theatre has remounted one of my favorite Menekseoglu plays: A Very Terrible Father . I wrote about the earlier production here , and...

Summer goes stumbling away with the breeze. Autumn comes tumbling like leaves from the trees.

Politico's Roger Simon wrote a column in which he claimed that Paul Ryan was referring to Mitt Romney as "Stench". A lot of ...

The Chicago Tribune Theater Critic wrote a piece about whether the Romney campaign could use a poet-in-residence. Given the week that Mitt...

We spent the weekend in Connecticut, guests at the home of my daughter's future parents-in-law. We hadn't met them before, but they ...

When you're running for reelection  It's dangerous to insist that we need a change of direction, Especially if we've been hearin...

From our hiking, A view to my liking.

Driving around LaGuardia Makes a driver hardia.

Lynn Sweet reports some unusual maneuvering: I've learned that Mayor Rahm Emanuel met Thursday with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Bara...

The U.S. was signing some agreement with Mexico, and the signing ceremony was not open to the press, and one reporter wanted to know why: ...

When leaving the train in a rush, I clean forgot my umbrella. I never cared for it much, perhaps it's just as wella. It was a free umbre...

Karen Lewis, the head of the local teachers' union, did a great job of whipping her people into a hopeful fury. Only, now that she has w...

I came across this sentence in the Chicago Sun-Times, online: She digged at Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his handpicked school board that includ...

On yesterday's run, all 3 of our GPS devices kept telling us the mile markers were short. By the time we were done running the marked co...

Ran an organized run that was like a race, but not a race. You paid to get in. There were bathrooms and aid stations all along the way. Ther...

The president's press secretary: This is a fairly volatile situation, and it is in response not to U.S. policy, not to, obviously, the...

I was in a discussion with an immigrant Muslim today. He was quite upset about the riotous assaults on our stations in the Middle East. He w...

Diplomacy vaunted as smart suddenly looks... not up to the part.

I have a ten minute play that's going to be part of Morgan Park Academy's Fall Show. It's a play about baseball, featuring a h...