Every goddamn day: 12/05/25

 ;     My brother and I drove to the Upper Peninsula in early October, as usual. And, per tradition, stopped at Held's in Slinger, Wisco...

     "Home," Robert Frost once wrote, "is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."      From his hea...

      Say it along with me:      "My name is Elmer J. Fudd. I am a millionaire. I own a mansion, and a yacht."      If you are of ...

      The boys will be home, tonight, if the travel gods smile upon them. First time in, well, quite a while. Plus two daughters-in-law and ...

Alena Ariel Wells      Both my boys were born in Evanston. Which at the time seemed wrong, since we lived in the city.      "Why Evanst...

      Nobody calls — well, scams, and automatic pharmacy reminders. That's about it. Rarely a real person. Emails too are mostly pellets...

"Praying hands,"  by    Albrecht Dürer (Albertina Museum, Vienna) .             Readers write to me all the time, sometimes sharin...