Column: River Forest red light cameras are a craven grab for your money
My sedate old car couldn't commit a crime if it tried. It is 15 years old and suffers from the metal equivalent of hardening of the arteries. Yet, there it...
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Column: Why doesn’t the no-call registry stop people from calling me?
I spy on myself. Maybe you do, too. I never answer the phone unless I know who it is. This requires I sort of sneak up on the phone when...
Column: ‘Sardine Syndrome’ epidemic could be coming to a restaurant near you
When it comes to gastronomy I live vicariously. No one could eat at all the restaurants in the suburbs and Chicago. And there are some I wouldn't want to eat...
Column: The day I finally broke the rules
What started as just a regular day of stuff to do turned into a day of metamorphosis. First stop of the day was the bank. Since I don't walk well...
Column: Humans on the ground could learn a thing or two from geese in flight
What is that noise? I glanced around in search of who was blaring a radio that loud. But, as I stood in the back yard on my way to the...
Column: Holidays will be here soon, along with risky political conversations
I hate to be the one to point this out, but the holidays will be here before you know it. Not that there is anything wrong with the holidays. But...
Column: Why I refuse to watch college football
There are a couple of ways to deal with people who have what you don't but deep down would like to have: 1. Be happy for them. 2. Pretend what...
Column: Today’s fake movements will pass, just like the ’90s ‘Men’s Movement’ did
It seemed like a good idea at the time. That can be said of so many things that have since gone the way of the dodo. In the 1990s, the...
Column: Kindness and generosity provide antidote to poisonous presidential behavior
I need an antidote. My system has been poisoned by what I see, hear and read of the actions of our president, from his praise of white supremacists, to his...
Column: New distracted walking law is a step in the right direction
Is there a limit to sympathy? Can (should) we feel sympathy for everyone to whom something bad happens? I find I run out of sympathy when it comes to people...