David McGrath

My father was neither a philosopher, nor a hero, nor one of those quirky "Everybody Loves Raymond"-type dads. But he was a success at something all too rare in this...

You open your eyes to songbirds and sunshine on Sunday, cozily expectant of breakfast in bed and well wishes on your special day. And then you wake fully and your...

This Thanksgiving, I publicly thanked my parents for lying to us. OK, it wasn't exactly a lie. It was more like an illusion. Even though from 1955 to 1970, my...

My friend who teaches business law part-time was bemoaning the high dropout rate in his night class, nearly 50 percent after the first two weeks. When I asked how the...

This could not run on Father's Day. Not that my late father isn't deserving of tribute, but he would not have fit in that Sunday's pages among the idealized fathers....

A back-to-grammar surge is gaining momentum among teachers trying to halt the decline of writing skills in our nation's schools ("Proposition with an object: Bring back grammar," Tempo, June 4)....

Recent experience suggests that the forthcoming national survey of community colleges should scrutinize suspect verbal skills ("2-year colleges going for class; Student survey hopes to set up national ranking," Metro,...

The argument proffered by the Tribune ("When sensitivity goes too far," Editorial, Nov. 4) that the end of Y Indian Guides means a loss of positive exposure to Native American...

Because Skip Bayless complains that he's "incapable of grasping the outrage" caused by Chief Illinwek (Tribune, March 7), maybe an analogy will aid his understanding. If Mr. Bayless' relatives were...

Bob Greene's suggestion of putting Elvis Presley's face on Mt. Rushmore (Tempo, Feb. 20) is not only more palatable than the proposal of a Ronald Reagan likeness, but it makes...