By Mary Carpenter Escuche. Preparar. Esperanza. These were among the handful of Portuguese words I could make out during the sermon at...

By JOHN CARPENTER It’s a summer game, of course. But golf was really made for the fall. Gone are the muddy fairways of April and the...

By JOHN CARPENTER When my teenage son showed me a list of potential colleges that included Duke and Vanderbilt, my first thought should...

By JOHN CARPENTER Bruce Roper leaned over the dusty workbench and carefully placed two slender, hand-hewn lengths of spruce into the...

By JOHN CARPENTER SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. I tasted the ocean in the air as I sat on the outdoor deck at Matunuck Oyster Bar, the ebbing...

By JOHN CARPENTER (This article first appeared in the Chicago Tribune April 14, 2017) My first trip on a Lake Michigan ferry was 25 years...

By JOHN CARPENTER (This article first appeared in the Chicago Tribune Aug. 7, 2017) Few golfing moments are more rewarding than standing...

By JOHN CARPENTER (This story was originally published in the Chicago Tribune on July 24, 2019) When my daughter put two California...