Every goddamn day: 07/16/25

Ofrendra by Norma Rios Sierra (Field Museum)      Unlike you, I actually read books of contemporary poetry. Because they float my way and I ...

Berea Triangle, postcard circa 1960.      There's a line in the Pete Townshend song "White City Fighting" that crosses my mind...

  Noah Webster seems to grasp the concept in his 1828 dictionary.      Readers regularly fall into a trap I call the “Two Definitions Proble...

      A heavier than usual load of reader mail Monday. While prudence dictates that most go unanswered, I responded to more than I probably ...

     When my official Maria Pappas, Cook County treasurer 2023 wall calendar arrived last December, I immediately put it on prominent displa...

     A couple weeks ago I rode my bike to the post office and mailed a matchbook to a man I've never met.      But I'm getting ahead...

Tai Shan Wan      Given that my job — as best as I understand it — is to comment on the relevant news of the day, I sometimes surprise mysel...