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 ...

Twenty years! I’ve been writing this column for 20 years. As I said back on the 15th anniversary, “except for teaching, that’s the longest time I’ve ever devoted to a single activity.” And 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 church signs to chalk ...

Saturday was a very cold and windy day, so the men were unable to put the roof metal on the new pole barn. They kept busy doing other work on the barn such as building the sliding doors, putting on ...

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.

One day when I was speaking to a third grade class, one little girl asked, "How long does it take to write a column?" "A lifetime," I told her. And truly, we carry a lifetime around in our brains. For ...