The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.
Mary SchmichYou can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary SchmichThanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.
Mary SchmichChicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.
Mary SchmichMaybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
Mary Schmich