Humor

During the “polar vortex” a few months ago, my trusty printer of 7 years decided to stop working. Penny, as I called her, did a great job for many years. A dozen cartridges and reams of paper later, Penny the Printer decided it was her...

A year ago tonight I received a phone call from my primary care physician, late on a Friday night, before a long 3-day holiday weekend. Can’t be good news I thought. The conversation went something like this: Dr. Feinberg: Dr. Kaplan, this...

My first time in a hospital that I can recall is when I was 6 years old. We were visiting my grandmother on the North side of the city when my father began to complain of abdominal pain. It worsened over the next few hours and my mother and I...

This past few weeks of "Feels like 102 degree temps" brings me back to this story published 3 years ago about events 20 years prior to that. Mr. Sims appeared in front of Judge O’Callahan in a Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago off of...

In some previous posts going back nearly 4 years I mentioned my father’s jewelry store in the heart of Chicago’s downtown jewelry district. I talked about his customers, in particular, gypsies who would frequent the store with cash and a...

I am not sure how or why this happens. A name, place or thing jogs my memory of person, event or experience. This time it's a person I haven’t thought about for perhaps 35 years. And the last time I saw him I was selling pens to collect money...