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Mary Theresa Schmich was born in Savannah, Ga., the oldest of eight children, and spent her childhood in Georgia. She attended high school in Phoenix then earned a B.A. at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.
After working in college admissions for three years and spending a year and a half in France, she attended journalism school at Stanford. She has worked as a reporter at the Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto, Calif., at the Orlando Sentinel and, since 1985, at the Chicago Tribune. She spent five years as a Tribune national correspondent based in Atlanta.
For three years starting in 1992, she wrote a column for the Tribune. She left for a year to attend Harvard on a N...
After working in college admissions for three years and spending a year and a half in France, she attended journalism school at Stanford. She has worked as a reporter at the Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto, Calif., at the Orlando Sentinel and, since 1985, at the Chicago Tribune. She spent five years as a Tribune national correspondent based in Atlanta.
For three years starting in 1992, she wrote a column for the Tribune. She left for a year to attend Harvard on a N...
Mary Theresa Schmich was born in Savannah, Ga., the oldest of eight children, and spent her childhood in Georgia. She attended high school in Phoenix then earned a B.A. at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.
After working in college admissions for three years and spending a year and a half in France, she attended journalism school at Stanford. She has worked as a reporter at the Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto, Calif., at the Orlando Sentinel and, since 1985, at the Chicago Tribune. She spent five years as a Tribune national correspondent based in Atlanta.
For three years starting in 1992, she wrote a column for the Tribune. She left for a year to attend Harvard on a Nieman fellowship for journalists, then returned to the column in July 1996.
She also writes the "Brenda Starr" comic strip and plays a decent barroom piano. She lives in Chicago.
After working in college admissions for three years and spending a year and a half in France, she attended journalism school at Stanford. She has worked as a reporter at the Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto, Calif., at the Orlando Sentinel and, since 1985, at the Chicago Tribune. She spent five years as a Tribune national correspondent based in Atlanta.
For three years starting in 1992, she wrote a column for the Tribune. She left for a year to attend Harvard on a Nieman fellowship for journalists, then returned to the column in July 1996.
She also writes the "Brenda Starr" comic strip and plays a decent barroom piano. She lives in Chicago.
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Commencement speakers: the rude, the unfunny and the insightful
Commencement season is the college equivalent of the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Institutions from the Ivy League to the local community college scramble to lure the shiniest star they can to their podiums on graduation day. And the match-ups...
Tags: Jane Lynch, Joe Biden, George Washington, Graduation, Mitt Romney
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The journey of Judge Joan Lefkow
Tribune staff reporterA few days ago, Joan Lefkow was walking down a Chicago street flanked by federal marshals when a panhandler walked up to her and said, "God bless you, Judge Lefkow." It has been nine months since U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow's name and face...Tags: Rentals, Mother (movie), Prozac (drug), Marshall Field, Sepsis
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Recovering and rebooting after 2012
Goodbye to Seamus, the Irish setter that 29 years ago rode 650 miles in a crate strapped to the roof of Mitt Romney's family station wagon, and to Rafalca, Romneys' Olympic-caliber dancing horse. Goodbye to President Barack Obama's "you didn't build...
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'Good Cheer' in October? No, good planning
When my colleague Eric Zorn and I hosted our first Songs of Good Cheer, a holiday singalong, at the Old Town School of Folk Music, we thought we'd do one and be done. But it was so much fun we did it a second year. And then a third. Now we're on year 14,...
Tags: Frosty the Snowman (fictional character), Chicago Tribune, Music Industry, Chicago Restaurants, Hanukkah
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$50,000 bounty to quiet robocallers
Game on, "Rachel from Cardholder Services," wherever you are. The Federal Trade Commission has announced it will award $50,000 to the person who comes up with the best technological solution to the problem of increasingly crafty robocallers who pepper...
Tags: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Fine Artists, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Tribune, Major League Baseball
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From pizza to poetry, a few things I like
Every now and then I make a list of things I've liked lately. Here's a back-to-school edition. 1. "Boss" According to the ratings, you're not likely to have watched this great show starring Kelsey Grammer as Chicago's brilliantly diabolical mayor. I...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Kelsey Grammer, Cancer, Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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'Humanizing' is something humans do
Hello. My name is Mary. Allow me to humanize myself.
I was born on a steamy summer day in a bulrush basket underneath the bleachers of Wrigley Field. Shortly before my birth, my hardworking father passed away, and my mom was left alone to support us...Tags: Peanuts, Wrigley Field, Chicago Tribune Columnists
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Schmich: Hudson family home stands in a neighborhood of despair
The big, old, white house with the boards on the windows and the trash in the yard remains a landmark. The Hudson place. Neighbors still call it that even though the Hudsons haven't lived there since the murders. "Did you know them?" I asked the man who...
Tags: Autism, Chicago Tribune Columnists, William Balfour, Jennifer Hudson, Murder
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For 15 Vietnam vets, the reunion of a lifetime
On Friday evening, if everything goes according to Jim Zwit's plan, he and 14 other Vietnam veterans will stand next to home plate at U.S. Cellular Field to be honored by the Chicago White Sox. Most of the guys haven't seen each other since the 1971...Tags: U.S. Cellular Field, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Chicago White Sox
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Family shattered after raid, home loss
The Harris family's life began to unravel around dawn on the last day of August.
R.J. Harris, who is 77, was in bed when a noise jolted him awake.
Bam. What was that?
Bam. It sounded like an explosion.
Bam. The front door swung open and officers in...Tags: Scott Waguespack, Cook County, Methamphetamine (drug), Car Safety Tips and Advice, Explosions
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