I’m going to share the recipe for this coffee cake my sister Susan and Ervin brought to our house recently when they came for supper

“Got a question for you. Would Jesus swat a fly or stomp on a spider?”

The heart of the transit funding package is a decision to use all state motor fuel sales taxes to fund mass transit instead of sending that cash to the Road Fund.

Our minds wander, and before you know it, stories of your family find their way into your column

Through every season, Nature sings different songs, and if we listen closely, those songs can inform the cycles of our soul’s internal seasons we move through in life.

How did we do it? There are days I wonder.

But it is precisely because we see and feel all of the cruelty, pain and destruction, that we have no choice but to continue to live and give from the heart.

We have been hit hard with celebrity deaths recently.

The Chicago Teachers Union president was recently elected president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers. State legislators haven’t appreciated aggressive advocacy by CTU allies in the past.