Every goddamn day: 09/27/23

     Are there a lot of trans people? That depends on what you consider “a lot.”      A government survey found 1.4% of 13- to 17-year-olds ...

Captured Syrian tanks      Usually, I have a nose for anniversaries. I can see them coming. Not this time; I didn't realize that Monday...

Bikes parked at the Copenhagen train station.      I first rode a bicycle in downtown Chicago the summer of 2000. We were about to move from...

          Were I to ask you to start naming flowers — rose, daisy, daffodil, marigold — I believe that no matter how long you went on — zinn...

Smørrebrød         So why Copenhagen? Nobody asked, but I'll answer anyway. Simple. Because the best restaurant in the world, supposedly...

UN Photo/Mark Garten (used with permission)       They’re refugee camps.      Who does the city thinks it’s fooling, calling their plan to c...

    When I travel to French- or Spanish-speaking countries, I usually can suss out a few words, a bit of the language, enough to get by. Hom...