Whoosh, this week! Find your patch of sun and warmth and hunker down in it. Happy #caturday

NEW — West Garfield Park’s Legler Regional Library is providing meals to those in need through a Library-Based Food Access program. It is the first library food pantry for Illinois and Chicago, according to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. thetriibe.com/2026/01/food...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

In Which our man George Smiley unexpectedly finds himself in an Agatha Christie novel (it's delightful so far) #booksky #amreading

oooooooooooof I actually said "oof" out loud to the dog

At this point, it’s definitely the pope.

The Chicago Pope is definitely watching the Bears

Whooo!

Wendell Berry

Short, fat, and of a quiet disposition, he appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes, which hung about his squat frame like skin on a shrunken toad. John Le Carré, Call for the Dead #sundaysentence

skyline drama #chicago

Good morning, #chicago #GoBears

Love everything about this #bridgeport #chicago

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Lil more snow, good morning #chicago

Same view, bluer skies #chicago

Rain, hail, big fluffy snow, good morning #Chicago

Still light at 4:30 pm *and* my hold book came in!

Bike Walk Savannah, an organization I cofounded, is hiring an executive director and an events and education program coordinator. Details:

Book portal.

Sky holds her breath while earth wonders what's coming. #BlueSkyWeather #Winnipeg

A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Rereading a favorite ✨🪄 Lev Grossman, The Magicians #sundaysentence #booksky

Amazing silent film footage of the 1917 World Series at Comiskey Park! (New York Giants vs. Chicago White Sox) Check out that great baseball sweater on John McGraw! #MLB #SFGiants #WhiteSox #Baseball #History

Out and about, feels like spring #chicago #kenwood

Good morning. Chicago After the storm #chicago

Good night, #chicago

Out and about, lake mood: slushee, mermaid, bird of prey, blues #chicago

Oh, I got you 😂

... a fiction is not a web of lies, with the truth, still squirming and alive, at its center; in a fiction, truth and lies are spun together, inseparable, in the same slender thread of silk. What the web catches is a matter of chance. Disclaimer from The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor #sundaysentence

Coffee and processing the chaos of the moment good morning

Good morning and Happy New Year, good people of Blue sky 🎉☕❄️📚📷🌳🏡🐱🐶🐾

Frosting #chicago

Nearing the end and loving every sentence; remembering one of my favorite college classes with the author's mother, Anita, many years ago. Feeling the connected themes, authors, history and influences over the years, traveling in parallel, timeless and new.

paths the imagination travels towards.

It can't have been cheap, but I applaud the developer of this brand-new building on 63rd St. for making it look like something that's been there for a hundred years (even common brick on the rear/side walls)

Out and about, after the rain #chicago

Eventually loneliness and snow became the same thing in her mind, lighter than air, made of nothing; only upon tackling the stuff did you realize it had piled too heavy to yield. Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny #sundaysentence

Saturday morning out and about #chicago

Specifically ☕📚

Better than working from home on a Friday is Not Working from home on Friday ☕📚☕📚🙏

Midwinter lake #chicago

Cookies part 2 Merry Merry 🎄

The mid-afternoon sunlight filters through the trees canopies at a Chicago park. It has been unseasonally warm the days right before Christmas. December 2025. #sunlight #trees #Chicago #park #Christmas #photography #cityscape

poet tree

Windows aglow #chicago

don’t wrap presents on the floor without a plan on how to get back up

Looking up #chicago

The Pope + Murakami, let's gooooo !