Mary Schmich – Page 12

This cover image released by Riverhead Books shows "Deacon King Kong," a novel by James McBride.

Column: So you couldn’t focus on a book for a while, but now you’re ready? 6 good books to read right now

July 3, 2020 at 8:27 p.m.

In the earliest days of the pandemic, I heard a lot of people say they couldn't focus on a book. I felt the same. When yet another media organization would...

Erika Lobatos, 39, checks in families in line for food boxes and milk at New Life Centers in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood on July 2, 2020.

Column: ‘Boxes of hope’: In Little Village, a food pantry turns the COVID-19 crisis into opportunity

July 4, 2020 at 7:06 p.m.

It's 8:55 a.m. A muggy summer day in Chicago. Outside the former fruteria on South Lawndale Avenue, two dozen people have already lined up on the sidewalk, leaning on empty...

Mayor Harold Washington joins a group photo at the International Folk Fair in Chicago in 1985, the year columnist Mary Schmich moved to Chicago and started working at the Tribune.

Column: Where am I? Reflections on 35 years at the baiduhai

June 26, 2020 at 7:22 p.m.

June 28, 1985. Does that date mean anything to you? It didn't mean anything to me either until a few days ago when I was applying for unemployment benefits due...

Signs advise passengers to spread out on the jetway of a United flight on June 18, 2020.

Column: To travel or not to travel? It’s the existential question of this pandemic summer.

June 26, 2020 at 10:16 a.m.

To travel or not to travel? That existential question is afflicting many Americans in this strange summer of 2020, as we wonder whether to take a trip, and if so...

People walk the Lakefront Trail at Promontory Point in Chicago on June 23, 2020.

Column: Chicago’s new ‘social distancing ambassadors’ are helping us stay safe

June 24, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

The job of any ambassador is to persuade, not to coerce, and it was in that cheerful, can-do spirit that ambassador Colleen Lammel-Harmon strode along the Chicago lakefront Tuesday. It...

Column: On Father’s Day, in praise of growing up with a difficult father

June 19, 2020 at 7:46 p.m.

One night when I was in my early 20s and on a visit home to see my parents, my father poked the side of my chest with an index finger,...

A person walks along the Lakefront Trail south of Chess Pavilion on North Avenue Beach in Chicago on June 16, 2020.

Column: With the reopening of the lakefront, a reunion with a lost love. Let’s not mess it up.

June 19, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

I've missed the lake. All of us who love it, who know it as the soul of Chicago, have missed it the way you miss a loved one who dies...

People wait in line for the bathroom before the start of the movie at the McHenry Outdoor Theater in McHenry on May 8, 2020.

Column: You really gotta go. But go where? The trials of finding a bathroom in the pandemic

June 17, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

The man in the mask looked desperate. He approached one person after another — I saw this in a park a few days ago — asking each one the same...

Approximately 200 men march in silence on June 4, 2020, from St. Sabina Church to 79th Street and Racine Avenue to protest police violence.

Column: Something’s happening here. And it gives us reason to hope.

June 5, 2020 at 7:38 p.m.

History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme....

President Donald Trump holds a Bible outside St. John's Church, across Lafayette Park from the White House, on June 1, 2020.

Column: ‘My Country ‘Tis of Me’: A New TrumPoem

June 4, 2020 at 12:16 p.m.

This is the latest in my occasional series of poems chronicling the presidency of Donald Trump, based, as always, on his own words and acts. LET US PRAY I am...

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