A few days ago, I departed this planet with great reluctance during this, my 102 nd trip around the sun. But I offer these ...

His father was also named Champ. It’s a family name, passed down with variations from his great-grandfather, James Beauchamp Clark, who was speaker of the United States House of Representatives from ...

I was assigned to write about when we went to the Eiffel tower. I jumped at this chance to finally take a break from news and write something more creative and exciting. It was maybe the most fun I've ...

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 ...

Here we are, my final ThisWeek column. I’ll continue writing; it’s what I do. But I’ll miss this space, and I’ll miss even more those who read my words.

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Writing this column is the second. I've been at it since last April, and that first anniversary has put me in a reflective mood. Last year, I worried about coming up with a topic each week.

In my advice column, For Love & Money, I get a lot of big questions about paying for weddings. The key to all my advice is that a wedding is about exactly two people — and that's OK.

I was both surprised, taken aback and delighted by the tremendous response to the column I did two weeks ago about shooting a picture of a harvested deer instead of mounting it to hang on a wall.

Over the years, she had often lamented how long she waited for a letter in return from a friend or a relative after writing ...