Lonny Cain

It finally happened.I rolled out of bed and shuffled into my Sunday routine. With my cup of coffee I nested into my sofa spot and grabbed the TV remote to…

"I know what you're thinking."Ever have anyone do that to you? Splash right into the big puddle of your thoughts and you suddenly feel exposed.Then you…

My dad had visions. The kind that turn into things.He would see things in his head -- and then make them. He was an artist.That's what artists do. They…

In 1960 author John Steinbeck traveled across country in a customized camper with his poodle Charley.He wanted to meet people and get a sense of the…

Politics is a game. It seems that way because there are winners and losers -- and rules.At least that's what I thought in 1972. I was a young reporter…

I am beginning to realize something.That ... in the end, you find yourself throwing away the beginning. I am going through boxes that were stored and…

Many times, over my lifetime, I have been a bum. Well, actually I think the word my Dad used was "hobo."It was the perfect costume for Halloween -- a…

Life. What's it all about?This question steamrolls over me now and then.Alan Watts in his 1951 essay on finding meaning in reality said: “If the universe…

The mayor of Nagasaki, Japan, has made a plea to the world, including his own government.And to all communities in Illinois.He wants us to remember what…

There’s love in the air.I see it every night in my backyard — surrounded by pulsing, blinking lights.Ahh, the splendor of the Lampyridae. Better known as…