While my son was winning the Dick Beardsley half marathon yesterday, Chicago was witnessing a sports perfect storm. As noted in Wikipedia, the real thing is a “meteorological event aggravated by a rare combination of circumstances.” But it is an

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On September 1, the New York Times issued its opinion of the best books of the 21st century. While I appreciate that the newspaper is the last in the country to offer its readers a separate book review section every

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Since I’m not a “morning” person, I rarely see a sunrise. The ones I have seen have been beautiful, but not enough to rouse me from bed for the event.

Sunsets are another story. By that time of day I’m

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I live in a condo development that is now old enough to begin replacing roofs on some of the older buildings. This past week, the building next to mine, which houses four homes, got its new roof. And it was

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Fifty-two years ago this August, while feeding my infant son, I watched the 1972 Summer Olympics that were held in Berlin. Because he was on the every-four-hour feeding schedule, I watched the games in real time in the middle of

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