I’ve never come to grips with that day.

I remember fondly the years we lived there and the many trips we have taken to the Windy City. And, of course, that fateful day when I won “Fan of the Century” (or something like that) at Comiskey Park!

Love the new features!

I’d take the blog-city comparison one step further. A blog and its audience runs parallel to live theatre or a talk radio program and their audience. In all cases, there is a shared journey of discovery. And that journey’s direction has a lot to do with the audience. Our audience – or our readers – make up half of the equation. In a play, the audience will surprise you – they’ll laugh when you least expect it, they’ll be silent when you thought they’d react. The quality of a production improves by doing one thing: Listening. Similarly, although as writers we write about what moves us, we need to Listen. We need to hear, within our respective missions, what’s working and what isn’t.

There’s a great old phrase: Theatre without audience is a rehearsal. A blog without a community is bunch of words and pictures.