Brett McNeil
Michiana ChroniclerBrett McNeil is a writer and essayist in Mishawaka, Indiana. His radio essays have aired on WVPE and WBEZ and his writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, Crain’s Chicago Business and elsewhere. He is a former newspaper reporter and columnist and is the recipient of writing awards from the Chicago Headline Club, Illinois Press Association and Inland Press Association. Brett is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois Chicago. He works as an investigator in a law office. Reach him by email here
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Brett McNeil talks about the important benefits and the current precarious status of education.
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Brett McNeil remembers his brother and a friend who are both gone.
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Brett McNeil shares some sobering details about the history of the Hoosier State.
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Brett McNeil shares a Dickensian tale where the protagonist doesn't quite come to the same conclusion that Ebenezer Scrooge did.
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Brett McNeil talks about reading, writing, not reading, and "word piles."
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Brett McNeil looks back on the lives of his mother and grandmother.
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Brett McNeil talks about gun culture and the so-called "Tree of Liberty."
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Brett McNeil ponders the demise of our social graces.
