Humanity’s cancer shows up in Israel and Palestine. Missiles fly, hell makes global headlines, thousands of people die, many of them (oh God, of course)...
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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04 October 2023
Something happened on Tuesday, as I began researching this column — I wound up having to give myself a COVID test.
A good friend had just tested...
27 September 2023
If the right gets its way, maybe in a decade or two, the United States will be free of its slave-owning past.
All gone – gone with the wind. It’s...
21 September 2023
It’s 10 p.m. at Montrose Harbor in Chicago. Kiko and Tamar help me step from the dock into the wobbly rowboat. Kiko rows us out to the Golden Rule and I...
06 September 2023
Freedom’s just another word for . . . blowing up your children? Giving them cancer?
Militarism is obsolete, for God’s sake. Its technology is out of...
30 August 2023
As I trek toward the Great Unknown, as life’s struggles seem to intensify, some odd questions keep recurring.
Art — what is it again? Why does it...