Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at commonwonders.com.

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05 November 2025

Let him rest in . . . peace?

I don’t know. The irony of those words is a little too much for me to grasp as I sit here contemplating the death of...

29 October 2025

I’m trying to find my way back into The Possible Future, the working title of the book I started over a decade ago and eventually lost hold of....

22 October 2025

Shouts and honking horns . . . and a country being born?

Hey, hey, ho, ho . . . I don’t know. it’s been four days ago, as I write, that the second No...

15 October 2025

I sit here at my desk, looking out the window – and see someone walking through the parking lot. This is the most ordinary of moments. I shrug quietly. Life...

08 October 2025

“Then they came for me . . .”

I can only begin here, at the emotional knifepoint of the ongoing ICE news....

01 October 2025

Words fail me – but they’re all I have, or so it seems as I sit here at a table in my new apartment. They ain’t enough! Not as I read the news and feel...

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