“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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

I am writing a musical called Happy If—Happy When. It is about two artists and their five children who move from the city to a farm in the country. Sound familiar? I have never written a musical ...

I started writing about my grief way before I realized I was grieving. My 5-year-old daughter had just been diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease, and I wrote an essay about how the news was ...