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Mary Schmich

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


— Mary Schmich


#food #medicine #pain #separation #some

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


— Mary Schmich


#ahead #behind #sometimes #time #waste

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.


— Mary Schmich


#anticipate #anyone #close #death #else

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.


— Mary Schmich


#before #fabulous #grasp #how #lay

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.


— Mary Schmich


#biographer #friend #linda #shown #tripp

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.


— Mary Schmich


#before #how #largest #learn #lesson

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.


— Mary Schmich


#everywhere #reading #ticket

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.


— Mary Schmich


#first #gay #i #met #person

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'


— Mary Schmich


#everybody #games #hunger #hunger games #neither

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.


— Mary Schmich


#happened #happens #move #move on #once






About Mary Schmich






Did you know about Mary Schmich?

A. She spent five years as a Tribune national correspondent based in Atlanta. from Pomona College.

About four times a year Schmich and fellow Tribune metro columnist Eric Zorn write a week of columns that consist of a back-and-forth exchange of letters. Born in Savannah Georgia the oldest of eight children Schmich grew up in Georgia attended high school in Phoenix Arizona and earned a B. In addition to writing her column Schmich was the author of the long-lived comic strip Brenda Starr from 1985 through its final appearance in January 2011 and has worked as a professional barrelhouse and ragtime piano player.

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