Mary Schmich

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old…

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people’s maps will…

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation…

Here’s a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You…

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we…

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you’ll have a trust fund. Maybe you’ll…

Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…

A line from one of my 1997 columns – ‘Do one thing every day that scares…

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when…

I couldn’t have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother’s death. The…