Mary Schmich

Through the dismal months of this pandemic winter, Jerry Coyne sometimes wondered whether his beloved Honey would ever come back. From the window of his office at the University of...

On the day that I was fully vaccinated against COVID-19, I decided to take a trip. This was on Tuesday, exactly two weeks after my second dose of vaccine, a...

Every night for the past few months, Noemy Godina has cried for her father. "I'm sorry I failed you," she tells him, over and over, though only in her mind....

So what are you going to do once you're fully vaccinated? It's one of the great existential questions of our pandemic time, one that pops up lately whenever I see...

Don Abram calls himself a queer church boy. Back when he really was a boy — a shy child, small for his age — he didn't use the word queer....

In the coming week, we'll reach the anniversary of the day the World Health Organization declared that the planet was in a pandemic. March 11, 2020. It was the day...

I'll tell you, kids, what I would do If I were queen and ran the zoo! If I controlled the whole dang show Hoo boy the places I would go!...

Apricity. If you live in or near Chicago — or any place where the gray skies have brightened lately and you no longer feel as cold as death — this...