[painter]

I would love to read about your experiences.

[spintreebob]

Coming out of high school, a goal was to write “Uncle Sam’s Cabin” in the style of DosPassos’ MidCentury. ‘61 to ‘80 I collected mountains of data. Then I destroyed it and don’t remember half of it.

I was in Chicago’s inner city in everything that was anti-Democrat machine politics. So I built coalitions of the far left and far-right. I was city-wide co-chair of many Alinksky organization red-lining and housing related committees.

Sometimes it was my overt political activity that got me in trouble. Sometimes it was just playing peace-maker between street gangs or angry anybodies that brought on excitement.