*Today is Rick Springfield's birthday. Rick is featured in the pages of Bill Paige's Eckhartz Press book Everything I Know I Learned from Rock Stars.
*Kobe Bryant would have celebrated a birthday today. Randy Merkin wrote about Kobe in his Eckhartz Press book Behind the Glass.
*On this day in 2018, Richard Reeder held an event in Skokie (photo below) to promote his book 1001 Train Rides in Chicago.
