Every goddamn day: 05/11/25

     My wife pays the bills. A few paid by check, an antique practice akin to churning butter. Most paid electronically, online. And a few, ...

         The 95th Scripps National Spelling Bee ends today in Maryland, and as usual, I cast a wistful smile back to a time, exactly 30 year...

Lisa Rezin (from left) with daughters Ashlee Rezin and Dawn Baxter.      It’s a five-hour drive from Detroit to Chicago. Yet Lisa Rezin woul...

         I was happy just to leave the house Monday, walk around the corner to Cherry Street with my wife, and sit on the curb on Cherry Str...

     Look at the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times for Monday, May 15. Inauguration Day, the day Brandon Johnson would be sworn in as the ...

     The changes rattling Twitter affect me very little. Were it not for the endless examples of owner Elon Musk being a bully and a crybaby...

       Yes, I look in the Spam filter. Occasionally. Okay, every day. Why? Boredom, I suppose. Curiosity. Amazement, really, that people — a...