Robert Frost

While reading a book on contemporary physics some time ago, I realized that attempting to comprehend it was like trying to floss the teeth of a flea. Underwater. While drunk. With broken fingers. And blindfolded. I managed to finish the book, but the...

Before the traditional deluge of silly string and beach balls marked the end of Greencastle-Antrim High School's graduation ceremony on Saturday, the members of the Class of 2011 reflected on their many accomplishments and the chance to start a new...

By Steve Siegel Special to The Morning Call It seemed at first like a battle of sorts. The relatively harsh landscape of monstrous, rusted skeletons of the Bethlehem Steel furnaces and the Musikfest Café’s harsh, rivet-spattered walls vs. the...

State Rep. Michelle Mussman, D-Schaumburg, will host a town hall meeting next week to recap the fall legislative veto session. The meeting is at 7 …...

You’d hate to lose Dwight Howard without a fight — or compensation. That’s why the Magic and their fans need this lockout to end and save even an abbreviated season. If the entire season is lost, Howard will be able to walk away as a...

Lots of presidents and neighborhoods lend their names to schools in Los Angeles, but authors, not so much....

Kay Ryan, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and a former U.S. poet laureate, is among this year's recipients of MacArthur Foundation "genius" grants....

Illinois education officials today unveiled plans to build a virtual network that would give teachers on-the-spot access to everything from lesson plans to student progress reports. The open-source technology system comes with help from the private...

At a memorial service that celebrated both his landscape-altering legacy and his big-hearted if crusty-shelled persona, the William Donald Schaefer nation gathered one last time on Wednesday — friends and one-time foes alike, Maryland politicos past...

We have Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and special days set aside to recognize grandparents, secretaries, mailmen, dog catchers, etc., but no Uncle’s Day. I’m lobbying for an Uncle’s Day, based on the four fascinating uncles...

There are writers whose books are stacked on my nightstand: G.K. Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay — writers whom I spend half an hour with before nodding off. They are master prose stylists whose command and fluency of English...