Since the beginning of time, the story has been the conduit of relationship, the bridge across culture, proof of our humanity, and, when deftly told, a gift for the ages.
When someone asks for your vote — especially someone central to the pandemic response — it’s important to evaluate them based on their actions, not just their words.
This is how I expected retirement to be: A nice stroll into a calm, slow, nonthreatening way of life as we put aside the chaos of the working world. Au contraire!
Letters to the editor submitted for publication to the Naperville Sun.
It didn’t take long to realize the new leadership’s manic attack on the status quo was by design. It also didn’t take long to realize the “shock and awe” was meant to both terrorize and exhaust us.
Letters to the editor submitted for publication to the Naperville Sun.
You might know axolotls from video games like “Minecraft” and “Pokemon,” but the aquatic salamanders with unique, adorable and popular with people who keep amphians as pets.
Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan’s taking a page right out of notorious segragationist and Ku Klux Klan supporter Bull Connor’s playbook from the 1960s.
While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south suburban Chicago man was “touching” the sun. Traveling at “a blazing 430,000 miles per hour,” according to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to reach the outer corona of the sun. If only its namesake, Eugene Parker, had lived to celebrate it.
It’s a long way from LA to Chicago, but the world is small if you have friends or relatives in Southern California, or if you simply have empathy for people under duress.