Lightningwriter
Charlie MadiganAn op-ed page experience for everyone. Warning: Sometimes funny, sometimes angry, always interesting.
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Bitter Melon, the fruit ? and the music.
Healthy carrots, lovely sweet corn and the most frightening fruit (?)
Yes, it is a Bitter Melon! It looks like a cuke with a bad mole problem.
Lest we forget, ages ago a couple of musical friends and I recorded an album we called “Cracks...
Milkweed, a butterfly's protected friend.
If you do a good deal of walking, you might
be noticing more and more of these delightful looking plants. Some people think of them as weeds, but then some people think of anything that doesn’t look like it’s from Better Homes and Gardens...
And now where is the cat?
Everybody wants to show pictures of their cats. Why? Because they are so much more interesting than any other animal you are likely to have around.
I gave my parents a monk parakeet once. It was smaller than a parrot and bigger than a par...
A Poem As Lovely As A Tree...
An immense victim of a recent storm.
One of the delights about living in Evanston is the lake front walk, which runs from one end of town to the other and never fails to impress. Sunday the weather was perfect, clear skies, light winds, do...
Simply everyone should have an ice breaker!
We need a couple of billion dollars worth of these?
Of course I have had a bad attitude about Donald J. Trump since he first blathered his way on to the scene way back when.
I can’t believe he wants to spend more billions of dollars on i...
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Reporter, foreign correspondent, editor at all kinds of levels at the Chicago Tribune, college professor, author, musician, songwriter, dad and husband. Author of "MINE" at Charlesmadigan.com and writing Bingo War.
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