Column: What’s your guiding word for 2020? Breathe? Walk? Travel? Here’s mine.
My guiding word for 2020 presented itself to me on New Year's Day as I was whizzing home in the car after a long walk at the Chicago Botanic Garden....
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Column: Another year, another time to marvel at existence
The following is a Mary Schmich column classic, first printed in 2014: Almost every day for the past year I've woken up with the same startled thought: I'm alive. Sometimes...
Column: An ode to the vanishing 2019, a year unlike any the world’s ever seen
Two thousand nineteen Has now lurched to a close And where we're all headed Well, nobody knows. . The year that just passed Left us muddled and grumpy The news...
Column: A nice not-so-normal Christmas story
The following is a classic Mary Schmich column, first published in 2013: Last Christmas Day, my sister Gina and I went to her favorite coffee shop for dinner. I mean...
Column: The editor of Carol Stream-based Christianity Today wrote an editorial saying Trump should be removed from office: ‘It was the right thing to do’
Mark Galli went to work on Thursday morning, as usual, in his second-floor office at Christianity Today in the Chicago suburb of Carol Stream. He turned on his computer, as...
Column: 38 years ago they held a small door-to-door caroling party. Now it’s an annual tradition.
This coming Saturday, Richard Dreger and Dana LaSalle will fire up the 25-quart chili pot, remove Dana's homemade cookies from the freezer, set out 50 wine glasses, make sure Rich's...
Column: Dolly Parton. Good, cheap socks. A Dutch cure for the winter blahs. 9 Things to Like Right Now.
Here's another of my occasional lists of 9 things I like, this one with a wintry feel. 1. Good socks Gather round, fellow sock fetishists. You, like me, know that...
Column: A letter to the next owner of the baiduhai: We need you.
To: The Next Owner of the baiduhai From: A baiduhai Journalist Hello, next owner, whoever you may be. I'm writing today on behalf of Tribune journalists past, present...
Column: A beloved bookstore owner in Dixon, Ill., died on Thanksgiving. ‘It’s a hole that will be really hard to fill.’
Larry Dunphy always swore that he'd never retire from the bookstore he ran in the small town of Dixon, Illinois, vowing instead to work until the day he died. He...
Column: Reject the comparisons. Embrace the complication. Be the brightness you want to see. Tips for happier holidays.
Here are some things that the holidays are not: They are not a competitive sport. They are not an exam. They are not a performance. We all know this. Don't...