For six glorious hours, I watched first my Iowa Hawkeyes crush Nebraska, then my Chicago Bears best the Eagles in back-to-back football games. I’m exhilarated and bewildered. Marking this once-in-a-lifetime moment as a Hawkeye and Bears fan.

Just another day working as a journalist in Chicago under Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz. Photo by @mandophotos.bsky.social for the @chicagotribune.com

Just wrapped up a robust and informative conversation on immigration coverage at the @cfr.org Local Journalists Workshop in New York City. Feeling inspired, empowered and ready to get back to work. #CFRLocalJournalists

Found these three amigos keeping watch at a bus station in Mexico. 🇲🇽

Update: These babies are unbothered and unwound. That massive cat fight was apparently none of my business. 😌

Charmed by the various gray cats on the way back to our room after dinner in the resort, but now we can hear a huge cat fight happening below our balcony 🥺 I hope these guys make it.

In the mood for some femme fatale kind of literature right now.

Going to bed two hours past my bedtime because, unlike my teen and tween and their friends, I’m not on Thanksgiving break and have to sleep. But my mama heart is full as they play board games, eating snacks, deep into the night.

Had planned to go into the office today but the look on my dog’s face tells me everything I need to know about that idea. Snow day it is.

Hello, new friends! Spent a well-timed girls trip in Charleston after a tense week. The first in the friend group turned 50. Any suggestions for a title of the trip other than 50 is nifty? 🥴