Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

Couple at the Renaissance Faire in Bristol, Wisconsin      Tomorrow is Valentine's Day —I hope I'm not the one to tell you. Or m...

Years ago, the principal of my kids' elementary school used a phrase that I had never heard before: "This is not the hill to die ...

     "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure,” Oscar Wilde wrote, in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.” “It is exquisite, a...

     Several months ago I gave a speech to a luncheon at Chicago's Standard Club. I didn't think much about the locale beforehand — ...

     At some point over the past several weeks of this endless winter, one of the nearly 1 million passengers who use the Chicago Transit...

Isabel Leonard      In desperate need of warmer climes, like most Chicagoans in this arctic February, or even a simulation of warmer cli...

     This could have been written without the Divvy aspect, but people seem to have an endless appetite for anything involving the bikes,...