Author: John Spevak

Now that Daylight Savings Time has ended, many of us spend more time indoors. There are few indoor activities better than reading, and there are few places better to find good books to read than our local libraries. The Westside...

Friendship is generally undervalued and underappreciated these days. Seldom does anyone write or talk about the value of friendship. That’s too bad, because a good friend is a jewel. And someone who has been a good friend for 63...

Here we are in October and the baseball season is over—at least for Cubs and Giants fans. They were eliminated weeks ago, and each club played its last 2024 game on Sept. 30. In fact, the only thing I got excited about the last...