Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the mid-90s, Ron Howard directed a gritty movie about the inner workings of a daily newspaper. "The Paper" included a memorable ...

You can still find advice columns in newspapers (the Tribune features Asking Eric, written by screenwriter R. Eric Thomas), ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I always speak to you, my compassionate readers, from my heart. So, I want to tell you that this is the hardest time I’ve had ...

In what might have been 1979, I was invited to a nearby elementary school to talk to students about writing. The children were led into the school gym, where they sat cross-legged on the floor while ...

Georgia Garvey — a writer, former editor at the Chicago Tribune and Pioneer Press, author and mother of two living in Wilmette — has released a new book, “Everything Is Going to Be OK (Until It’s Not) ...

My favorite Tough Love question from the last eight years, the one I (somewhat inexplicably) recall most fondly, was from a woman whose boyfriend was grossed out that she used a pee rag—a.k.a.

In the mid-90s, Ron Howard directed a gritty movie about the inner workings of a daily newspaper. “The Paper” included a memorable rant from the newspaper’s executive editor, played by the actor ...