From our editorial board: If the Chicago Bears’ stadium saga feels endless, it’s because it is. Years of proposals, renderings, press conferences and open letters have produced exactly one consistent result: nothing.

How do you assess a year that’s about to end? A simple enough task, I thought. But turns out it is not. It began as a challenge in the form of a writing prompt. That’s a writing assignment, if you choose to accept it.

My mind keeps drifting back to five years ago today ... a day that changed our lives.

Seeing the book sparked a flashback. One thing led to another. The book was “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure.” I was suddenly pulled back to my high school years, when I had read a printing of the 1934 edition of “Alone.”

On Thanksgiving Day, Daniel Ray and I hosted a mystery menu dinner here for both sides of our family

Well, winter has spoken, and her official reign doesn’t even begin for another two weeks.

“Read all about it! Read all about it?”

Our nation’s officially-designated day for giving thanks has come and gone.

For this column, I’m going to share some excerpts from my mother, Elizabeth Coblentz’s, columns from November 1994