freelance?

anyone have any advice about freelance writing/editing? i know there are some chicago publications (the reader, new city, red eye, etc) that accept articles, but i never know where to start on things like that. i'd rather have some sort of guideline or assignment. or better yet, editing and proofreading. i try looking on craigslist and other things like that, but so far nothing i've responded to has panned out. 

advice? anyone successful with this?

from the editor of Poetry Magazine, Christian Wiman

Let us remember... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.

Thanksgiving

Phoebe: Turkeys are beautiful, intelligent creatures!

Joey: No they're not! They're ugly, and stupid, and delicious!

(Friends) :)

goodbye Wrigley-pooch

best. dog. ever.