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 ...

WHERE DO YOUR TEXTS COME FROM? What's at SAAM is my writing that I use less and less all the time. But I haven't a clue where that comes from, other than my dark past, maybe. I'm more likely to use ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As I look ahead to 2025, our country’s divisions make me want to stop writing opinion columns. In the past decade, the chasms that divide our country have ...

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.