“If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.” - Kurt Vonnegut Fellow literature nerds will know that just by naming this piece “Why I Write,” I am inviting ...

I write because I am terrified of forgetting. Not the mundane forgetting of where I placed my keys or what I ate for breakfast, but something more profound — the forgetting of who I was at a ...

Heartbreak disrupts attachment, identity, and meaning. Poetry may help the mind give shape to what ordinary language cannot ...

They had to sit with the problem long enough to internalize it, and that process of internalization is what eventually became ...

(RNS) — Since childhood, I’ve been a regular target of ignorance and bigotry. My experience contributed to my becoming a scholar of history and religion, but more than that, it has given me a clearer ...

Synopsis: A short play following a group of passionate young writers with allegorical names, who once filled pages of writing together. When they are tragically reunited, see how they brainstorm, ...

Have you ever lost a loved one who left important words unsaid? Did you wonder if they really loved you, or did you have an argument with them right before they died? As a hospice nurse and the ...

Most education coverage in America focuses on teachers, professors, or the institutions themselves. The system, not the student, dominates the headlines. We hear endlessly about teachers’ unions, ...

An obituary may well be the hardest thing to write. It has to be composed in a hurry during a period of bereavement. Those closest to the person who died may not be in a condition to write it. The ...

Imagine you are a 19th-century shipowner about to send one of your vessels to the New World, carrying a cargo of hopeful families seeking a better life. While your ship has historically been sturdy, ...