I blew it.  I was so sleepy Wednesday morning that it never occurred to me to go invest in history and plunk down 50 cents for a Washington Post.  I’m told I could have found one until about 10 a.m., had I looked hard enough.  The problem was that I didn’t think about it until [...]

It was a long and at times unbelievable ride last night - at one moment I wished I was in Grant Park, then I was glad I could trundle upstairs and go to bed at 2 a.m. instead of trying to get on a CTA train with 100,000 other people. It made me think of the [...]

Voting for the first time in a new neighborhood, I arrived at my polling place this morning at 6:30 a.m. to find a line down one side of the block and halfway up another. Just in front of me was an octogenarian African American matriarch, dressed to the nines, and proudly refusing all offers [...]