Every goddamn day: 06/09/25

"Hey Facebook — ecce homo!" Behold the man. Robert Feder, right, in the flesh at my older son's wedding in Michigan in July. T...

       I did not expect to cry.      But there I was, misting up in the lobby of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstow...

     Chalk it up to both a sad commentary on the diminished state of the mainstream media, and the general screw-you reticence of large corp...

     For many years, I dismissed the idea of going out on New Year's Eve as "amateur's night." Packed restaurants, overwhe...

Banquet of Haarlem's Cavilermen Civic Guard, by Cornelis Cornelisz Van Haarlem (Frans Hals Museum)      Times change, but Chicago is sti...

      To welcome 1975, my mother threw a party. At our home on Carteret Court in Berea, Ohio. Exactly 50 years later, I remember only a few ...

     Half the fun of travelling is what you do to pad the spaces around the reason for your visit.      For instance, last month we drove to...