A few days ago the LA Kings finished off the NY Rangers in the National Hockey League Stanley Cup Finals. Last night, the San Antonio Spurs dispatched LeBron James and the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association Finals. NFL training camps are still a ways off. Ordinarily this would begin the best time of summer […]
A writer in one of the memoir classes I lead will be on stage reading a piece at Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
A paralyzed teenager is using an exoskeleton to do the World Cup’s ceremonial opening kick , and what a colleague at my part-time job who is paralyzed thinks about that.
Beth writes often about her mom, Flo — most recently this past mother’s day. Flo spent that day at a rehabilitation facility, where she has been getting geared up to move into her new assisted living apartment. Flo has yet to make it into her new digs — but she’s working on it. She’s had a series of setbacks, […]
Sharon Kramer is a new writer in the memoir-writing class I lead at the Chicago Cultural Center. I’d intended on using an excerpt from her “One Thing I Didn’t Like About My Mother” essay in my last blog post, but soon realized that to really get the gist, you have to read this wonderful essay […]