If you have the chance check out my new online gallery of pottery and other artwork. The website address is:...
I'm on the Northside, not far from the Heartland Cafe--one of the few hippie-friendly places I know around here
OK, summer school ended today, and for 3 weeks I actually have time to breath, if not sleep. So who in the family is around Chicago? Can we...
I'll be there on August 21st--and dressed like a girl! (well, in a kilt, anyway!)
Sadly, I will be in summer school this year and making it to the Nationals is doubtful, though I’ll certainly try. Anyone know of any Rainbow...
Anyone know when and where this years Chicago Hempfest will be? It doesn’t seem to be well-publicized—I always find out about it when it’s over,...
Take Back the Night Rally at my college is next week. I’ve been to several of them, and sometimes it seems to be a good thing, where people of...
I’d love to meet some fellow hippies in Chicago— I’m living in Rogers Park right now, near the Heartland Café, where I’d expect more...
Please help--I'm running out of ideas! I’ve been working for a while on a collection of short stories about Boy Scouts—not the typical...
I’m taking a ceramics class this semester, and I’m having some fun and a lot of frustration. So far I’ve made a couple of chimney mugs (wide based...
I am sorry to hear you had such a bad experience, and I hope your attacker receives the karmic reward for inflicting such pain on you. But that...
I’m wondering how many of you students and teachers hang out together? When I was in college in the early 80’s it was normal to hobnob with the...
I don’t know what subject this class is in, or what the professor’s complaining about… but I do know that professors gossip about students—not in...
Rape is a terrible crime, and should be treated as such. But false accusations of rape just create problems, both for the accused, and for real...
Pardon me for misspeaking— The Courts don’t "legislate", they simply "interpret"; meaning, they decide if a given law is valid, what it means,...
I tend to read a lot of historical fiction; novels with fictional characters but based on actual historical events. The most well-known such books...
I have several times read "Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" by Robert Pirsig. I’ve been fascinated by it, though...
The Constitution is deliberately vague in many areas, and a lot of "rights" that people think they have because of the Constitution have actually...
I would also love to know about any Rainbow related events around Chicago. I know that there’s a drum circle in Evanston around the full moon,...
There’s harassment, and then there’s sexual harassment. A lot of my students have written research papers on this issue, and most seem surprised...
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