Every goddamn day: 02/10/26

           Valentine's Day looms — a week from Saturday. You've done nothing, of course. It helps to have a plan. For starters, what...

     How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won't be testifying about the Chicago Police Department's notorious ...

Natasha      Margaret Atwood didn't just write "The Handmaid's Tale," you know. She's also a poet — 18 volumes publish...

     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...