Ken Trainor

It’s May and the donuts are back. With Farmers Market reopening, I decided to revisit a column I wrote back in 2013: Waking to a rainy Sunday was soothing. As beautiful as Friday and Saturday were — low humidity, clean skies, clarified sunlight, comfortably cool — I enjoyed this cloud-cast Sunday even more. A light […]

Suzie and Kitty Carson's rosebush bloomed early this year. It usually achieves its annual outburst in June. This year, perhaps a nod to climate change, it blossomed for Memorial Day.

Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer.

Sure on this shining night / Of star made shadows round / Kindness must watch for me /

For its 50th season staging outdoor theatrics in Austin Gardens, Festival Theatre is trying something new: Two plays.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

A few weeks back, I spent an enjoyable evening at the Ernest Hemingway Birthplace on Oak Park Avenue listening to Scott Schwar talk about his new

With the blooming of Queen Anne's Lace and its annual sidekick, chicory, along our roadways, summer for me reaches full flower.

We are the champions, my friends. Not the White Sox or Cubs or Bears, all struggling valiantly for municipal glory.

Are you a political hobbyist or a political lobbyist? Maybe you're a political atheist (someone who doesn't believe in politics). There are probably other categories, but this is enough for one column.