Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

      "You need to make a sash," I said. The kind of half-joking, half-sincere thing I often say. Spoken to my wife a couple da...

Cynthia Lerner     Every day beautiful women reach out to me. At least one. On Friday morning it was two, Cynthia Lerner and Marylou ...

     Harry Truman was an angry man, given to firing off unwise attacks. Richard Nixon was vindictive and paranoid. Andrew Jackson was a...

      Of the three things that make a good restaurant — food, service and atmosphere — the last quality is the one that often gets overlo...

The Ferrington Farms subdivision has one house in it.       FAIRFIELD, Illinois — Drive 275 miles due south from Cook County to Wayne ...

    Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it is going out of business this week. The last shows will be in May. It wa...

Bless the waters (photo by Erasmia Smith)       This could easily have been twice as long. The subject called for some background on th...