Michael Alcee

New Year's Eve revelers huddle together to watch as fireworks light up the night sky along the Riverwalk at Michigan Avenue with the arrival of Jan 1, 2024. (Antonio Perez/ Chicago Tribune)

Michael Alcee: New Year’s resolutions seem to set us up for failure. How can we course-correct?

January 2, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

As counterintuitive as it may seem, we need the marginalized, dissenting voices inside us in order to rock New Year's resolutions.

Steven Spielberg on the set of "The Fabelmans."

Michael Alcee: Thank you, Steven Spielberg, for honoring and lamenting divorce in ‘The Fabelmans’

March 10, 2023 at 11:43 p.m.

Like so many kids of the 1970s and '80s, I'm grateful for the hero just out of the frame. And it's not because Steven Spielberg launched "Indiana Jones" and "E.T."...

Parenting during a pandemic is not always easy, so remember you are doing an incredible job, Warrior. You are strong, you are wise and you have the resources within you to carry on.

Op-ed: Pandemic parents, you are warriors

December 18, 2020 at 10:36 p.m.

Day 270. I'm a 43-year-old man accordioned into my child's car seat yet elated that my 2-year-old son wore his mask today and agreed to sit by my side eating...

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