Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

                             Used with permission of the Museo Nacional del Prado      MADRID — At home, a Chicago police press pass and a s...

     I haven't had the chance to put my Spain notes into any kind of coherent order yet. But in the meantime, I wanted to share with you...

Clocks being tested at the Chicago Lighthouse clock factory in 2015.       Today's column could be seen as slightly chutzpadik, as my pe...

     The would-be writer longs for the book itself, the tangible object, with his or her name emblazoned on the cover. To hold in his or her...

     I’ve been away a couple weeks. In Spain . Didja miss me? No? Not even a little?      Sigh.      Can’t say I’m surprised. We exist in su...

     Well, that's it. Thank you for indulging me over the past two weeks. Or, if you didn't indulge me, thanks for circling back. I...

      I'm back, after a pleasant break overseas, just in time to read this lovely ramble into Chicago by EGD's Northshore correspond...