Sometimes I become absorbed in a film to the extent that I project myself onto the screen, where I might be, say, Bradley Cooper falling in love with Carey Mulligan...
I have had some trouble sleeping. I have been worrying about a lot of things, like the recent blood test showing a jump in my glucose levels. The 1099 tax...
I have had some trouble sleeping. I have been worrying about a lot of things, like the recent blood test showing a jump in my glucose levels. The 1099 tax...
On Jan. 1, 1968, I made a New Year's resolution to quit cigarettes. I lasted barely a month, during which I often awoke in the middle of the night, heart...
If teaching were baseball, I would have been sent back to the minors after my first year at Chicago Vocational High School. A 22-year-old English major, I could diagram a...
Is anyone surprised that at least one poll this year, by statistics database Statista, found that Americans' favorite holiday is Thanksgiving? Expressing thanks, after all, makes everyone feel good. In...
Halloween originated with the ancient Celts of western Europe as a celebration of ghosts and spirits in acknowledgment of and hope for an afterlife. Which is all well and good,...
When a relative, friend or colleague dies, you regret that you canceled a lunch date with them or never made the phone call you had intended but kept putting off....
Like a lot of teachers, I began as a substitute for Chicago Public Schools, making $40 a day filling in for faculty members who called in sick. As a 22-year-old...