On this date last year, Illinois Governor Pritzker ordered all bars and restaurants closed as of March 17 until …  March 30. On March 17, I walked across the street to our polling place and voted in the Illinois primary. Then I went home to get back to work, when working from home was still […]

I have a friend who grew up on Long Island whose mother lived in a nursing home in New York. Lived, as in past tense. She died of COVID last year. Now, she lived a very, very long life—she made it to 99 (she would’ve been 100 last week). Still, my friend was suspicious, skeptical, […]

On Friday I opened an email from Bethesda Lutheran Communities, the operator of the group home where our son Gus lives in Watertown, Wisconsin. The gist of the message was that Bethesda had agreed in principle to sell its Watertown services to another organization, Broadstep. For those who don’t know what the heck I’m talking […]

We have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to screen entertainment. And it drives me nuts. For example, we have Netflix. But nearly every time we think of a movie we want to see and I search on it, I get the dreaded “Titles like…”. Which means “we don’t have it but you might […]

I thought “Defund the police” was a dumb term for a stupid idea the first time I heard it. I’m all for “fund our schools,” but the idea that it’s a zero-sum game between police and schools or other social investments is nonsense. Clearly though, it’s time to change how police do their policing. It’s […]