Every goddamn day: 02/01/26

     So Friday morning, busy with research, emails and even a quick nip out to the Bean Bar for coffee with a colleague, slowed toward lunch...

Still four rings to go. Virgil and Dante being rowed across the River Styx (Gustave Dore)      Oh honey.      You think this is going to be ...

  The Sun-Times took this shot for some kind of promotional campaign that never happened. Yes, I worried it was affected to take it at the N...

Sandra Wittman      A black-and-white cat paused in the doorway, giving me the once-over.      "There's Oscar," said Sandra Wi...

On the west communications mast of the John Hancock Building in 1992. (Photo by Robert A. Davis)      Wednesday is the 30th anniversary of m...

       "Remind me," I told my wife, as a pair of luscious pork chops were slid under my nose at Psistaria Greek Taverna on Touhy, ...

   At the cemetery in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania      Readers sometimes mistake the obituaries that run in newspapers for the obituaries publi...