Every goddamn day: 05/09/25

     Motherhood is a simple biological fact. One that encompasses the condition of a woman — or, I suppose nowadays, a person of any gender ...

Steve Albini      "That hits hard," a college classmate texted from Los Angeles. "Albini always seemed like someone who would...

   Grr. Urg. Other expressions of visceral, teeth-grinding frustration.      Monday morning. All is right with the world. Or right enough, i...

     So we moved my mother and father, a week ago Monday. The next day I asked my mother how she liked the new place.      "I'm not...

Boys in a Chicago schoolyard play with yo-yos. (Photo for the Sun-Times by Bob Kotalik)      My wife sleeps late while I wake early.      ...

           Odd that the same year, more than a quarter century in the past — 1998 — would pop up under two completely unrelated contexts thi...

     Photo by "DiscoverWithDima ."      "Didn't you originate that?" my wife asked at breakfast earlier this week. ...