Steve’s Midlife Crisis

I am posting the message below to the Madison Indiana Town Hall Forum.

Jean,
Although I have been monitoring this forum, from time to time, ever since some of your fellow citizens told me about it, I have not spoken up here before.  However, now I think the time is right for me to say something because […]

Pigeons. They’re everywhere in Chicago. Whether it’s summer, autumn, winter, or spring, you can’t walk more than a block without seeing lots of pigeons. I don’t know any statistics about this, but from my observation, pigeons have to outnumber people in this city.
These birds are also known as “feral pigeons.” A […]

I know fear; I want to know it more.
I have looked it in the eye.
I have not shrunk away from it.
Fear follows me.
It often walks beside me
Or lurks behind my back.
Sometimes it wraps itself around me
Like a python trying to squeeze me,
But I do not give in.
Well-meaning friends call that courage.
Hah! I laugh heartily […]