Ping pong. Rowing. Surviving somehow in the ghetto. After a life in Chicago, most of it on the Southside, I…
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You might think chopping up steel bars would be a fairly mundane business, but for one of the biggest choppers…
I grew up in between. Eight blocks to the West were the people my parents called the “Schvartze,” and eight…
Observations made while driving to work this morning. The roads are less traveled. This is an observation by Lloyd Graff…
It’s the feeling that enables me to fall asleep. The kinesthetic memory of the dimpled leather, the seams spaced across…
Yesterday evening my wife, Stephanie, and I stopped to get gas. As I fueled up, a man named Danny, on…
If you’re looking for poverty and violent crime, Bessemer, in the great state of Alabama, is your town. It was…
Amazon buys Central Steel and Wire. That’s an odd couple. Not really. What Jeff Bezos wants is the 70 acres…
Are schools that much different than factories? At this moment in America, virtually every factory is open and many are…
I was buying bagels for my lunch, and on my ride to the deli I started listening to an NPR…