I threw my back out, really far out. I mean I can’t believe how bad it is. I cannot walk. I cannot breathe without severe pain, or sit up with ease, or lie down comfortably, or laugh too quickly. I sleep and wake with enormous dread that I might have to get up in the […]
I recalled a distant memory today, when pressed by sunny quiet. I told the story to friends over a late lunch. It was the kind of tale you start to tell before you know you’re going to, when remembrance takes over thought and appears like magic before your casual beloved. On a trip to Tibet, […]
Why would you change your name to Esther? I am trying to understand, but it is hard. I would understand taking your husband’s name. If I had, I would have the same last name as Chuck D. I love my husband, and I love Chuck D., but I have worked hard for my name, and […]
Note from Team Cho: Margaret interviews Grove Pashley, Kathy Bakken, and Burk Sauls from www.wm3.org, about the West Memphis Three. (Click here for low bandwidth version.)
They killed him. I have failed. We have all failed. The world is all failure. I am overwhelmed with sadness. This war is wrong. No posts for the rest of the week. I am in mourning. There is no light anywhere.
Kim Sun Il is allegedly still alive, being held hostage in Iraq. I am worried. He is 33, so I am his “noona,” older sister. In Korean culture, no matter what , everyone calls each other brother or sister, and the ranking is more important than your name. Being older, I am responsible for him, […]
I am getting ready to go out, and I bought the prettiest dress on Brand Ave. It’s bugle beads, white silk, like a ballroom dancing competition gown. You’d put a number on my back, I’d bet. You never understood the way I dressed. You just walked some paces behind me, embarrassed by my flamboyance, but […]
I watched Rumsfeld’s live press conference on CNN and it was really scary. He has totally discarded the prison abuse scandal and is eviscerating the press for focusing on it, as if it were untrue, and the media were making a big deal out of nothing, and in doing so, worsening the situation in Iraq. […]
A woman was charged with making ‘terrorist’ threats to CZJ in numerous letters and telephone calls. What a weird situation. Why would you stalk CZJ? I mean, I love CHICAGO. I am not kidding. Ask anyone. I have two copies of the dvd, because I thought I lost one and then I had to get […]
I was out yesterday with a terrible migraine that lasted approximately 34 hours. What brought it on was fitful sleep and then mounting stress levels from waking until it peaked midday and stayed at a painful plateau until I attempted sleep late again that evening. In my dreams the headache continued. It is a strange […]
Flea markets are the cemetery of our culture, and the ghosts of the past sell themselves by advertising targeted at individual memory, or collective memory, like when a stranger the same age as you points at the Halloween costume of Donny Osmond, the one you are bargaining with the crotchety old man for. “It’s never […]
I think that it must be bad when you have to reminisce about how great it was to have Ronald Reagan for president. We all mourn his loss, and have for the last several days, because it brings it home even harder how terrible things are today. It is like we are having an ‘end […]
