Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

  Susana Mendoza      Don't bite off more than you can chew.      If something is overwhelming — whether today's news, or the $39.95...

Photo by Dan Abraham       Much reader reaction to Monday's column on birding.      "You can't go wrong with birds," I to...

Bob Dolgan looks for woodcocks at the Glenview Park District's Kent Fuller Air Station Prairie.       Usually, birds come to me. To my b...

     Passover ends Sunday, and with it my annual stiff-arm refusal of hard-boiled eggs and all their manifestations.      I don’t like egg s...

  April 6        Long week. Lots of running around, reporting stories that will be in the paper next week. Trying to keep myself distracted....

       Timothy McVeigh was so upset that the government used tear gas on children during the Waco siege that he killed 19 kids in a day care...

     Wednesday's column on the Department of Motor Vehicles made me wonder what other DMV columns I've run. And while this only ment...