Good morning, Chicago

Out and about, a little more snow ❄️ Last roses persisting #chicago

...if the place is legitimate there is no pool, there is no second floor, just leather against flesh, flesh against bone, rope slapping concrete, slapping earth, that machine gun fire of sideways fists against speed bag. #sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip

Out and about ❄️❄️❄️

Little Italy. 10:06am. #chicago #photography #blackAndWhite

Happy snow day, Chicago

A few of the books I loved best this year

Proof of Winter

Rockefeller Chapel #uchicago

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Grateful for friends here old and new, Sunday sentences and book chats, Chicago trees and plovers and owls, history and architecture, housing and transit, and much needed humor and compassion. Enjoy your day ❤️🙏

Pie No. 1

A few photos of two snowy owls near Montrose Beach Monday evening in Chicago.

Personal goals for the holiday Feathers ruffled, few to none Pie, lots Wine, same Don't worry Be Happy

Add a little sparkle to your night #chicago

Sunday morning out and about Lake report: gentle and dazzling #chicago #hydepark

We're a city of steel, not gold; crust not crimson; Jewels not jewels. Barry Pearce. the Homegrown Pontiff, Chicago Magazine #sundaysentence

#SundaySentence “How to F/Hold on to Your Humanity” ~Rayya Liebich roommagazine.com/reading-room...

the day's end.

Hello literary friends, a former student intern has graduated with her bachelor's in creative writing and is seeking entry level editorial or related work in publishing, ideally greater Chicago, any leads or connections are welcome

Lollipop for recipients

A pair of snowy owls on the coast of Chicago

“I am fascinated to presume, as a reader, that many types of people, strange to my life, might be revealed, through the intimate space of fiction, to have griefs not unlike my own. And so I read.” — Zadie Smith in the essay “Fascinated to Presume: In Defence of Fiction.”

Good morning city Good morning lake #chicago

The city never really slept; it endured white nights and fitful slumbers. Its breakfast was cigarettes, black coffee and aspirin, and it would feel like death warmed up for hours. One more #SundaySentence from Mick Herron, Slow Horses #booksky

We have had at least three of four seasons this week #chicago

We made this the other night and it was so easy and delicious we are making it again *may I add I am neither vegetarian nor vegan. **Yer regular old lentil will be just fine #cooking jessicainthekitchen.com/red-lentil-c...

Goodnight, city

Flamingo in the snow ❄️ #calder #chicago

Maybe this was what age did...Confirmed you in your image of yourself even while it unpicked the reality, leaving you the tattered remnant of the person you'd once been. Mick Herron, Slow Horses #sundaysentence #booksky

Pumpkins in trees? yes, please. Relishing the last of fall colors as first snow alerts of the season are issued 🍁🍂❄️ #chicago #hydepark #trees

The assistant at work

"the eye like the eye of faith believes" AO Scott's poem explorations are such a joy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

UPDATE: U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis said she will issue a sweeping injunction limiting the use of force by federal immigration agents in the Chicago area after she found a litany of violations were committed in recent weeks.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

Chicago skies being dramatic #chicago #Loop

boom. leaves. promontory point. chicago.

Hyde Park looking fine #chicago #trees

Now the vast throng of crows rose out of Highgate Cemetery in unison, and the ghosts with them, their dark dresses and winding sheets flapping wing-like in the sky. Audrey Niffeneger, Her Fearful Symmetry #SundaySentence

Levi Gangi Tonight at First U #music #concert #hydepark #chicago facebook.com/events/s/fir...

We had a million bajillion trick or treaters ❤️ Halloween you surpassed all expectations 👻🎃☺️❤️

Halloweeny 🎃

@nytgames.bsky.social May I suggest an addition, ty #spellingbee

Time for a reread of one of my very favorite ghost stories #booksky #amreading

The treatment of religious demonstrators at the facility has become a political flashpoint and, ultimately, a legal one. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

In Addison, Illinois an immigration agent using an American flag as a mask smashes a woman’s car window while her family sits in the vehicle. Video from social media.

Dusk, a deserted room, a scrap of black silk on a marble table, darkening waters beyond. John Banville, Venetian Vespers #sundaysentence #booksky

Sunday morning out and about #chicago

Chicago neighborhoods tear gassed by federal agents during recent immigration raids: Logan Square, Brighton Park, Little Village, East Side, Lakeview, Irving Park and Avondale.

Reflections on travel heading back into the week - so good for the spirit and perspective. We mere humans are infinitely imaginative and inventive; deeply connected across history, time, and place.

“And if it’s around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at twilight, it seems Halloween will never come in a fall of broomsticks and a soft flap of bedsheets around corners.” A #SundaySentence by Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes