Every goddamn day: 10/31/24

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport      The Bangkok to Chicago flight was about to board. Our hero shuffled toward the gate, exhauste...

     For years I was general assignment reporter. My schedule was Sunday through Thursday. Which meant I went to a lot of church services, o...

        Last week I kicked off a new Saturday feature, "Works in progress," where my writer friends talk about what they're do...

     With Jimmy Carter, 98, in hospice care, the paper asked me to write a reflection on him. I THOUGHT it would run after ... umm ... the i...

      The Sun-Times ran a story on Tuesday about how the Chicago Audubon Society is dropping the name of its inspiration, John James Audub...

Ruined bridge after the Battle of Bull Run, 1862 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      Friday, it will be one year since Vladimir Putin sent his...

     We saw a magnificent hawk soaring directly above our heads when we first entered the Chicago Botanic Garden Sunday. For a moment I thou...