The upcoming week marks this column’s 18th anniversary. I almost can’t believe it. It feels like far longer. It almost feels like I’ve been writing it since … “forever ago.” From church signs to chalk ...

Since I started writing for The Chronicle my sophomore year, one of my friends has insisted I write a column about columns. The closest I’ve gotten is an OP-Ed about the QuadEx arches, but with my ...

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.

I feel it’s rather presumptuous of me to describe myself as a writer. In fact, it makes me feel downright dishonest. That puts me up there in the ranks of creative people who’ve spent most of their ...

My first journalism job was long ago, covering events at my high school for the local paper. Writing this column is the second. I've been at it since last April, and that first anniversary has put me ...

The words “Fan Mail” were printed in my mother’s neat hand on the top of a shoebox I found while I was cleaning out my office closet for the remediation team after the Eaton fires. Many years ago, I ...

On Dec. 3, I’ll mark 35 years of writing this weather column for The Columbian — a sentence that still surprises me when I put it on paper. When I filed my very first column back in December of 1990, ...

Every Monday for more than 30 years, Mychal Wilmes starts to think about what will become his next column. “Then it kind of mulls around in my head,” Wilmes said recently over coffee at a cafe in ...

The Guardian’s sex advice columnist has answered countless questions over the last two decades. As the column ends, here’s what has struck and surprised her ...

One of the longest-running media institutions in North American sports is coming to an end. That would be Peter King’s Monday morning NFL column, initially dubbed “Monday Morning Quarterback” for its ...