Jack Spatafora

So now we Americans are 300 million strong, and our political candidates agonize over how we can hold this diverse, bursting population together. The problem is we're all so different--ethnically,...

October is a strange month. No longer summer, but not entirely fall, it represents one of those fragrant in-between times in Chicagoland when we live in a state of jaunty...

"She cried once a day, not because she was sad, but because the world is so beautiful and life is so short." I received that message on a card sent...

August is mystical. For many it's too hot. For some too wet. For others too long. And yet the way I feel is that August is the great divide between...

The good old summertime--celebrated for its sizzling romances among the young and its iced-tea visits among the old. Also for its family get-togethers, where kids and seniors find themselves all...

Do you hear what I hear? No I'm not talking about the babble from your cell phone, the hum with your BlackBerry and iPod, or even the whir of your...

Where have all the fathers gone? Well they're here, all right, but they look, sound and act differently than in recent generations. Back when, Type I Father was the hard-working...

Traditionally Memorial Day honors those Americans who have died for this country. But to many of us, it also honors those Americans who have lived for this country. Tens of...

Motherhood triggers a powerful galaxy of feelings. And yet on Mother's Day, we often tend to disguise those feelings with at-a-safe-distance social conventions like cards, flowers or meals. Nothing wrong...

We Americans really like wars. Have you noticed? There was the war to end all wars, the war against cancer and now the war on terror. Of course then there's...