David Brooks recently retired from writing his regular column (twice weekly for about 30 years) in the New York Times. He was a wise, principled conservative — neither a right-wing ...

My wife and I have always found your writings to be helpful and informative in our marriage and for raising children. I frequently copied the articles and made them available in my office to farm and ...

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, ...

Writing a newspaper column is easy. Just open a vein and bleed. The origin of that description varies. Famed sports columnist Red Smith is most often credited with the characterization of repeatedly ...

A farewell — and a thank-you — to the readers who read, wrote back, disagreed, and made nearly four decades at the Globe a dream job. You usually know when it’s time to go, and for me, that time has ...