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A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have... →
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when... →
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper... →
One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how... →
The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell... →
List of newspaper columnists