All good things take time, and the Ten Thousand Villages store is no exception.

You may have seen them, dogs or cats dumped on the side of the road because the owners no longer want them.

Donations are a must for certain organizations hoping to survive.

What is “real love?”

It isn’t easy being a leader.

Well here it is folks: the one column I tried not to write because there really is no answer to this question!

It’s Sunday night, about 10. And since I have a few hours before I have to go out and start fighting crime, I’m on the Internet, where I’m reading about tomorrow, when Kerry Wood and Mark Prior are both scheduled to pitch in a real live, honest-to-gosh game of baseball.

The Growing Place Empowerment Organization is seeking a local organization to donate their facility once a week for three hours.

The American Flag. It is a simple piece of material, but it means so very much to the residents of this country.

Time once again to renew my annual loud, obnoxious and ultimately futile call to reduce Wrigley Field to tiny, tiny pieces as soon as is humanly possible under the current rules and guidelines enforced by the various neighborhood associations and alderman (i.e., 34 years).

When it comes to technology, I’ve usually been behind the curve--way behind the curve.

Day six in a post-Anna Nicole world, and only now do I finally feel like things are starting to get back to a fragile sense of normalcy.