Ken Trainor is a Writer/Editor at Wednesday Journal, Inc. He focuses on a diverse range of topics including culture and society, family and relationships, and parenting, often intertwining themes of elections, government, and public policy with insights on meditation, mindfulness, and pop culture. Ken's work has also been featured in the BROOKFIELD BAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
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Last weekend’s first Saturday of spring reminded me of a column I wrote about its counterpart in March of 2019:
We are living through a revolt against the future. The future will prevail. I love Anand Giridharadas’ statement above, one of three gateway quotes leading into Rebecca Solnit’s latest book, The Beginning Comes After the End – Notes on a World of Change, which I recommend if you’re feeling hope-starved — which probably describes most of us at this point. Solnit has a gift for finding viable avenues to hope. She doesn’t indulge […]
As the father of an only child, I assumed grandfathering would be more complicated with twins. And it was — whenever they headed in different directions as toddlers — but they survived and turned into a forged unit. I never expected to have any more grandkids, but my son’s second marriage has produced Charlotte, aka […]
It’s May and the donuts are back. With Farmers Market reopening, I decided to revisit a column I wrote back in 2013: Waking to a rainy Sunday was soothing. As beautiful as Friday and Saturday were — low humidity, clean skies, clarified sunlight, comfortably cool — I enjoyed this cloud-cast Sunday even more. A light […]
Suzie and Kitty Carson's rosebush bloomed early this year. It usually achieves its annual outburst in June. This year, perhaps a nod to climate change, it blossomed for Memorial Day.
Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer.
Sure on this shining night / Of star made shadows round / Kindness must watch for me /
For its 50th season staging outdoor theatrics in Austin Gardens, Festival Theatre is trying something new: Two plays.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
A few weeks back, I spent an enjoyable evening at the Ernest Hemingway Birthplace on Oak Park Avenue listening to Scott Schwar talk about his new
