Every goddamn day: 02/23/26

Daniel Chester French’s statue of Abraham Lincoln in his memorial in Washington, D.C. I love how his right foot is slightly raised, as if he...

“A Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves” by Eastman Johnson. “The absence of white figures in this liberation subject makes it virtually u...

Fashion models, Paris      Regular readers know that I have dictionaries — dozens of them, from the oft-cited Oxford English, Samuel Johnso...

     The good news is I wrote an interesting, unusual column Thursday, related to Black History Month — if you feel reading it half as much ...

      If orchids vaguely frighten you — and I find them creepy — there's good reason. Orchids are saprophytic; that is, they obtain the...

       Readers sometimes ask me what they can do.      They don't need to explain exactly what it is they want to do something about. Yo...

Ashland        Chicago's gritty history can lead one astray.       My friend Bill Savage certainly winces at the "gritty" epit...