Guilty

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June 29, 2010

Guilty

Yesterday, a jury found former Chicago police commander Jon Burge guilty.  Not of the torture which it’s alleged he committed and/or oversaw in his years as a detective and commander […]

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June 27, 2010

Call of the Wild

Kathy Lyndes, a friend of mine, and her partner are drawn to the lives of wolves.  They just came back from eight days on Isle Royale, assisting in a project […]

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June 16, 2010

In Flanders Fields

I bought StreetWise today from Roarke E Moody, the vendor I know best.  Moody is a Vietnam vet, and a poet, and for the Memorial Day issue of the paper he […]

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June 10, 2010

Aging Gracefully

When I was a child, I was ballet mad, like many little girls.  We lived in a small town in eastern Kansas, and now and again famous troups would come […]

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June 5, 2010

Eleanor Taylor Bland

Eleanor Taylor Bland, 1944-2010. Eleanor Taylor Bland, 1944-2010, died on June 1, and our world of writers, readers, humans, is diminished. I first met Eleanor in 1992, when she published […]

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June 1, 2010

Air and Rice

I took a week away from the computer and it was very restful.  I’m trying to work out ways to focus more on my writing, less on anxiety and the […]

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