The best New Year’s bash ever
The first New Year's I remember celebrating was 1959. I was a kid having a pretend party with my brothers and sisters, using the discarded streamers and pointy hats littering...
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What changed my mind about the Fourth of July
I thought I knew what freedom meant. At age 21, I had carte blanche in the adult world: I could vote, drink and drive wherever I pleased. I landed the...
Love Notes: Making up for lost time
Mike Biscan and Patty Ryan recently returned to their home in Lincoln Park from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico — it's a trip they take every year for Valentine's Day, and they...
Love Notes: Making up for lost time
Mike Biscan and Patty Ryan recently returned to their home in Lincoln Park from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico — it's a trip they take every year for Valentine's Day, and they...
It’s the guns, stupid
Joe Cichoszewski could fix anything. I knew this firsthand about my grandfather, who often performed his sleight of hand in front of my eyes after my mother asked me to...
Love Notes: Score one for the home team
Holly Marie DeMark was experiencing Post-Breakup Syndrome. Though not recognized by the medical profession, PBS is as painfully real as a broken heart. "I was still licking my wounds," Holly...
The meaning of Christmas
I used to think that Uncle John and Aunt Lucy had the biggest family in the world. They lived in a two-story house in Oak Lawn with their 10 kids:...
A tutorial in love
I was no Don Juan. Nineteen years old, and I'd yet to ask a girl out on a date. Sometimes friends tried to arrange something. As when Tom and Joan...
A tutorial in love
I was no Don Juan. Nineteen years old, and I'd yet to ask a girl out on a date. Sometimes friends tried to arrange something. As when Tom and Joan...
What are Chicago students worth?
Purely by chance did my wife catch our daughter red-handed, trying to escape through the bedroom window. Janet had been grounded for disciplinary reasons, and as it was a balmy...