At this time one week ago I was in a StoryCorps booth in Chicago interviewing renowned retired White Sox baseball organist Nancy Faust. A producer at StoryCorps Headquarters in New York City had been hounding Nancy for months, urging her to get in a StoryCorps booth to record her story. StoryCorps is a non-profit that […]
It’s that time of the year when my working life eats me alive for a couple weeks and occupies the limited space in my head, which means I’m left with not-so-deep thoughts: Here in Chicago I’m happy that we might have a real race for mayor now that Rahm Emanuel has announced he will not […]
Mike gave you his view of the California wildfires in his last Mondays with Mike post, and now, in honor of the Smelling is Believing writing workshop I’m giving this weekend at the Northwestern Summer Writers Conference, let’s see if I can describe scenic Mendocino County without using my sense of sight. It was love […]
The 2018 baseball All-Star game is over now, so on to more important things: retired White Sox organist Nancy Faust is heading to Pasadena to be inducted into Baseball Reliquary’s Shrine of the Eternals! What? You never heard of the Baseball Reliquary? Me neither. But thanks to an article about Nancy Faust in the Cook […]
Dylan Covey, a 26-year-old pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, has type 1 diabetes. I have type 1 diabetes, too – that’s the disease that caused my blindness. Covey was diagnosed during a standard physical in his freshman year of college, when the Milwaukee Brewers drafted him 14th overall in the first round of the […]