In these days of continued political and cultural tensions I have been thinking of you. I have been thinking of reaching out to you with a plea. I know we promised not to try to convince each other of...

I have been struggling with the question of how to spend my time during the lead-up to these mid-term elections. On the one hand, I decided this summer to cut back on a number of my activities, to focus...

A couple of years ago, a colleague gave me a book as a gift, and her note said something like, “You’re such a good writer, you must read a lot. Here’s a book that has inspired me, I hope you like it too.”...

Recently I did two “time travel” writing exercises from The Artists’ Way. First, I traveled to the future – to imagine myself at 80 years of age. I spent some time describing how I imagine I will be, if...