I have so many project ideas swirling around in my mind and in my heart, and I want to start them all, but feel like I'm stumbling over...

I'm tired of forgiving cruelty. Can we just live in Dolly Parton's America?

Inspired by the changing of leaves and the trees of my childhood...

TikTok is educating our future doctors...

This mythical monster set a high standard for me as to what poetry could be...

Sometimes you just have to carve out some time to be creative...

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COVID quarantine felt a lot like my childhood summers. I never got to go away to fancy camps or travel very much or very far, so I spent...

I have an idea. I’ve talked to my publishing friends about it, but they just kind of smile and shake their heads because they know...

I might have learned my most important writing lesson from an art director named Tim Cooper. When I was working at the magazine, he would...

Every year, about this season, I get the creative writing bug, and so I have managed to carry through with a (mostly) daily habit of writing

My mom has her mother’s purse, and it hangs on the chair still holding on to her lessons of managing lipstick and jewelry...

Evolution of self requires trespassing where some people say she shouldn’t go.

I do have to write. Just like I have to read and sleep and eat. Writing has just been something I always do.