Chicago, IL, August 25, 2011 Colin Quinn, who spent 5 seasons as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” has brought his one-man show “Long Story Short” to Chicago from the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway and the Bleecker Street Theatre (Off-Broadway), where his one-man show played on August 25, 2011 at the Broadway Playhouse […]
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CNN’s “live” coverage of the 7 Republican hopefuls debating from St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire just concluded. Anderson Cooper is winding up the John King moderated debate. Ron Paul is talking with Anderson Cooper about the stark contrast between his position on bringing all troops home from foreign engagements and the less dramatic […]
On January 16, 2010, I posted an article on my blog, “Weekly Wilson” that detailed my firsthand experiences as a one-time candidate for 1st Ward Alderman in East Moline, Illinois in 2005 who knew the vote totals announced in her race the next morning were false. (*Read the first article to see how on Weekly […]
It’s raining in Tennessee and the severe weather and storms hadn’t let up as of 5 p.m. CDT. Local papers in Nashville said it was the worst flooding since 1974. According to the Channel 5 news in Nashville ([email protected] and the newspaper the Tennessean, there is a tornado watch for most of southwest Tennessee until […]
On Saturday night, March 20, 2010, my husband and I attended the annual fund-raiser for the Midwest Writing Center, held at the Outing Club in Davenport, Iowa. There was a silent auction preceding the event, and we bid on several things, but were outbid. I had a lovely conversation with Diana Garman, a reading aide […]
Today’s big gaffe by the Obama administration was made by Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood—-coincidentally, my former neighbor in East Moline, Illinois, and a great guy (also, a Republican, most recently residing in Peoria, Illinois and representing that district in Illinois before his decision to retire.) Ray was testifying before Congress about the sticking pedal […]
Eight of them, silhouetted against the paddlewheel steamboat…four boys, four girls. They slouch there, ill-at-ease in their unaccustomed finery. The I74 bridge looms behind them in the distance. One girl, chilled by the spring breeze, wears her date’s jacket slung casually around her shoulders. She stares at the ground. Is she thinking about the night […]
I’m here in the Big Apple and have attended both the Backspace Writers’ Conference and the BEA (Book Expo America). The Book Expo is an event I have attended for the past 5 years, ever since it was held in Chicago at McCormack Place. Then there was one in Washington, D.C. and a couple in […]