Mary Schmich – Page 25

Miss Birch. Mrs. O’Neal. Sister Barhorst. Remembering our teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week.

May 23, 2019 at 12:04 p.m.

When I heard that Teacher Appreciation Week was coming up, from May 6 to 10, I immediately had a vision of Miss Lois Birch. But before I sing the praises...

Daniel Escalona wanted to read ‘Moby Dick.’ After his unexpected death, at 25, his parents pledged to read it for him.

May 23, 2019 at 12:04 p.m.

A week before his unexpected death, Daniel Escalona told his mother he wanted to read the classics. " 'Ulysses?' " she said, imagining he meant the fat 1918 novel by...

CBD oil for sale at CBD Kratom on North Damen in Chicago.

CBD oil is suddenly everywhere. Is it really going to cure your anxiety, your migraines and your acne?

May 23, 2019 at 12:04 p.m.

One day in early April I passed a big sidewalk sign on Michigan Avenue hawking something I'd never seen publicly promoted in downtown Chicago. I looked at it for a...

Anita Hill testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in 1991. Hill testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her while he was her supervisor.

Come on, Joe Biden, apologize to Anita Hill

May 23, 2019 at 12:04 p.m.

Just say you're sorry, Joe. Take a deep breath, stand up tall and say it: I'm sorry, Anita Hill, for how I treated you. Simple. See? Apologies, of course, are...

Some "Moby Dick" slackers have banded together in a club to share the work of conquering the book at last.

Feel guilty that you’ve never read ‘Moby Dick’? Read it now with our club of procrastinators.

May 23, 2019 at 12:04 p.m.

The Moby Dick Procrastinators Book Club is now in session. Yeah, that "Moby Dick." The Great American Novel. The one you've never read. The one you keep meaning to read...

A woman walks through the Book Cellar bookstore in Lincoln Square in Chicago on Oct. 31, 2018.

Sure, you could buy that book online for $15. But here’s what that book really costs us.

May 23, 2019 at 12:04 p.m.

Danny Caine, who is 32, was sitting in the tiny office of his bookstore the other day when he heard a customer at the counter say something he hears a...

President Donald Trump during a Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Washington.

A poetic retort to the Mueller report

May 23, 2019 at 12:03 p.m.

This is the latest in my occasional TrumPoems chronicling the rule of Donald J. Trump, loosely based on his words. THE MUELLER REPORT The nation waited breathlessly For Mueller's big...

People watch as flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame Cathedral as it burns in Paris on April 15, 2019.

Notre Dame burns and a piece of the world’s heart goes up in flames

August 25, 2019 at 12:26 a.m.

You can tell yourself it's just a building, just a church. You can tell yourself everything changes, nothing lasts forever. You can say these things and know them to be...

A rare, elusive wild turkey is traveling through Chicago and people are excited

May 23, 2019 at 12:03 p.m.

The big news in recent days among Chicago birdwatchers is that a wild turkey has shown up near Chicago's lakefront for the first time in, oh, 150 or so years....

Never watched ‘Game of Thrones?’ Come into my safe space.

May 23, 2019 at 12:03 p.m.

Welcome, friends and allies, to the "Game of Thrones" safe space. Here in our cozy sanctuary, you don't have to feel like an outcast merely because you've never seen the...

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