Georgia Garvey – Page 4

Column: 2020 has been a tough year. If it makes you feel better, it could be, and has been, worse.

November 23, 2020 at 3:38 p.m.

Hello and welcome to the Holiday Calendar Year Support Group. This is our special Thanksgiving meeting, which, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we're holding over Zoom. Please keep all of...

Can one mother prevent her son from totally freaking out whenever he brushes his teeth? Stay tuned.

Column: A dental tragedy, in three acts

November 16, 2020 at 2:25 p.m.

"Brush your teeth," the dentist tells the 4-year-old as she finishes his check-up, "or else the Sugar Bugs will grow on them." <The Mother cringes. The Mother Critic speaks.> Ms....

For better or worse, Malort has become synonymous with Chicago.

Column: Maybe Malort has earned its spot in the pantheon of great Chicago traditions. I’m still not drinking it.

November 9, 2020 at 4:02 p.m.

I'm not quite sure how Malort managed to claim the mantle of quintessential Chicago booze, but if anyone tries to put it on our state flag, I'm fighting it. On...

Column: Since it seems that New Yorkers like to boss people around, we called over there and asked for some advice.

November 3, 2020 at 12:55 p.m.

Hello, this is The New York Times Hotline For People In Other States Looking For Instructions On How To Live Their Lives, how can we help? Hi, Illinois here. I...

Kids on roller skates, pictured on March 30, 1936.

Column: It’s another round of everyone’s favorite game show, ‘Parenting By The Decades’!

October 26, 2020 at 5:25 p.m.

Hello, studio audience, and welcome to another edition of "Parenting By The Decades," the game show where we teleport four parents from four different decades to the year 2020 to...

A Greek flag waves behind the columns of the temple of the Parthenon in this file photo.

Column: On Oxi Day, I’ll fly the Greek flag, and celebrate sacrifice

October 22, 2020 at 2:12 p.m.

Sometimes the most insignificant things can teach the most profound lessons. Take, for example, the hearts game on my Kindle. In hearts, the lowest score wins and, typically, you do...

A pan pizza from Pequod's in Morton Grove.

Column: Illinois can take the insults, but putting down the places people live doesn’t solve anything

October 13, 2020 at 8:51 a.m.

The president's been doing a lot of tweeting lately, which is, I suppose, good news for anyone worried that catching coronavirus will lead to long-term consequences to the dexterity of...

A car with US President Trump drives past supporters in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on October 4, 2020.

Column: For President Donald Trump, for all of us, there might be no second chance to repent

October 8, 2020 at 11:51 a.m.

My husband commented the other day that I write a lot about our family. "I guess that's true," I admitted, but barely leaving the house tends to shrink your world....

Social distancing signage on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston on Tuesday, July 21, 2020.

Column: Society is being pulled apart, but we can still choose to be kind

September 29, 2020 at 9:42 a.m.

The universe is expanding. Every second of the day, the Milky Way stretches farther and farther apart, the room between stars and black holes swelling, our galaxy moving away from...

Column: The black hole of death threatens us all. But maybe what comes next is important, too

September 22, 2020 at 3:14 p.m.

I was making dinner when I heard the scream, a wail from the living room, where my two sons were watching TV while I cooked. I ran in, saw our...

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