While Monday brings out the phantom quarterbacks in a lot of offices, we often spend a portion of our Monday playing armchair comedians and debating the sketches on “Saturday Night Live.” It’s [...]

This is the kind of post that should probably be read in a rocking chair on a front porch with old-timey music playing on a phonograph in the background. I feel like that’s what I’m doing as I [...]

In her beautiful coming-of-age novel, Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto puts this question in the mind of the lead character, Mikage: “Is this what it means to be an adult—to live with ugly ambiguities?”

In less than two weeks, the men’s basketball team from the small 15,000-student Loyola University Chicago has orchestrated three shocking upsets during the NCAA tournament. With defeats over [...]

We were in Texas recently to shoot some footage for a documentary when I saw a billboard for a company boasting that they were “probably the best on the planet.” I got so hung up on the phrase [...]

My career in the restaurant business was short-lived but involved one night that seemed to go on forever. One of our chefs spent the time between the lunch and dinner shift drinking a whole [...]

There’s something about Sunday afternoons, especially in the winter, that calls for old movies. It’s a good day for time traveling and living in an older world for a couple of hours. Of course, [...]

Sports have always been about stories. They have always been about the identities we build from the stories of our families, cities, and ideologies. They become about the clash of personalities [...]

Linnea Head has spent her life inspired by animals and wildlife. When a friend commissioned her to paint Cincinnati Zoo’s beloved Fiona, she saw it as a chance to capture the whole story of [...]

(Non-warning: This post does not contain any spoilers related to “The Last Jedi,” or at least no spoilers that are not hinted at by the title of the movie.)

Annie Dillard writes this bit of subtle genius in her book, The Writing Life: “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.” It’s the kind of wisdom that sounds obvious at first but [...]

If we’re honest, Santa isn’t the only one with a list. As we approach the end of the year and the plethora of holiday celebrations and family gatherings, many of us keep a collection of lists, [...]