Who would have thought back on Sept. 12, 1926, when St. Mary Parish in Riverside was established that on Sept. 13, 2020 I would be a member of the parish, watching Mass at home on TV from Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. 

Normally, and who knows what is normal these days, I would write a column at this time of year about going back to school, buying supplies, colors of crayons and so forth.  But this year it is oh so different.

We're not Mayberry anymore and we certainly have come a long way since Riverside named its first police chief, Charles A. Tiele, back on July 10, 1875, paying him a whopping $30 a month and the days of policeman Charlie Lange making his rounds on a bicycle in 1887. Yep, things sure have changed.

There are the Hatfields and the McCoys, the Montagues and the Capulets, the North and the South, the Democrats and the Republicans. However, one of the longest running feuds -- and I say that because I can't think of a better word -- is the feud that exists between Cubs and the Sox fans.