Middling.Industries

I Hate Swimming, But I’ll Never Stop

October 13, 2018

[caption id="attachment_247" align="aligncenter" width="533"] The Welles Park pool in Chicago where I swim. In the summer, the walls slide aside to the open air. On winter mornings, sunlight streams in.[/caption]...

YouTube

What Did You Do On Saturday Morning?

October 7, 2018

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gIjM8m9O8U[/embedyt] Last week over a dozen friends sent me amazing videos from around the world to show what they were doing on their Saturdays. First, I want to say...

American Politics

The End of Sympathy And Compromise

October 7, 2018October 8, 2018

Embed from Getty Images I was raised in a decidedly left-wing family. My mother and father both marched on Washington in 1963 with Martin Luther King, Jr., and when I...

Personal

Saturday Morning Around The World

September 28, 2018

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdaRNPxfyoA[/embedyt] If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you know that the American world fell into a shitstorm this week. Rather than write about the big topic we’re...

YouTube

Flipping The Script

September 23, 2018September 24, 2018

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq73helcwjA[/embedyt] This week, I'd like to flip the script and ask you to help tell a story. I want to tell the story of 9:00 a.m., Saturday morning of...

Personal

Just A Shell

September 16, 2018

[caption id="attachment_200" align="aligncenter" width="533"] Lou Fourcher, at Loyola Beach in Chicago, June 2012.[/caption] It begins one of two ways, either a call to your cell marked “No Caller ID”, or...

News Media

How I Should Have Seen The Fall Of Alternative Newspapers In 2003

September 6, 2018

[caption id="attachment_188" align="aligncenter" width="550"] New York City newspaper boxes, April 5, 2016. Source: Flickr/Dumbo711[/caption] After years of working in the federal government, the annual conference of alternative newspapers seemed downright...

YouTube

Going Deep On Vacation

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZONVeGOtyo Every summer Teresa, Nicolas and I take a week vacation right before school starts after Labor Day. This year I tried to think hard about what the time off...