Birds are not only beautiful to look at but far more clever than we give them credit for when it comes to communicating about food and danger and staying warm.
Life throws us difficult, seemingly impossible challenges, but it also provides others who are ready to help us get through it. And once you do, you will carry in your heart for the rest of your life the knowledge that you can do hard things.
An election should pique your interest, raise concerns, propose opportunity, inspire a hopeful “what-if” kind of thinking. It shouldn’t make you feel like a cat on a hot tin roof.
A 22-day, 5,700-mile odyssey across America leaves suburban man humbled, inspired and convinced we, as a people, are not as divided as we think we are.
I’m here, less than two weeks before Halloween, to dispel the myth that black dogs are scarier, meaner or in any way less lovable than their white, brown, gray, spotted or striped counterparts. Dogwash!
Donna Vickroy’s memory garden, which contains elements in honor of her deceased mother, father and sister, is a place to seek solace when grief strikes unexpectedly as much as a place to sit and remember.
The community is the hero in Tinley Park, Elgin, Joliet and many other Chicago-area towns, where alert and responsive kids and adults learned of threats to their schools and quickly reached out to authorities. “I can’t emphasize enough how important it is for the community to keep us in the know,” Tinley Park Police Chief Thomas Tilton said.
The power of live music and the feeling it gives us transcends age and can fill you with memories and emotions you first felt years ago, Donna Vickroy says.
With a COVID-stricken husband isolating and back and tooth pain mounting, Hilary Decent had plenty of reasons to write about why she couldn’t write.
Letters to the editor submitted to The Courier-News.