Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

      On Sunday I never left the hotel, except to dash onto the sidewalk to pose for wedding photographs, protected from the drizzle by the ...

       Regular readers are familiar with Kitty, our half-Bichon, half Shih Tzu mix for the past, ulp, 14 years. I'm happy to report she...

     The election past, we can now peer through weary eyes at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Well I can't — my younger son got married over...

View from our seats      My younger son is getting married this weekend, so I thought I would look at a few of his cameos from past columns....

Kitty in Colorado in 2011      The house is busy with people again — two sons, one new daughter-in-law and a soon-to-be daughter-in-law. My ...

  Benjamin Franklin, by Joseph Siffred Duplessis  (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)      When Benjamin Franklin was asked...

        The Sun-Times has excellent headline writers. The first thing I noticed Wednesday when I unbagged my paper was the perfect way the f...