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Words of power “ALICE lived her life holding on to the sides”: one of Dorothy Parker’s many oh-so-cutting insults suddenly seemed to apply to me — or, rather, to my writing. My ex...
Our small acts of caring can turn a life around, and we may never even know it.
Theo is a “prescriptive” character, the author explains, who “gives us a way to use our days well, and that is to fill them with little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and...
The light that changed my life.
By Elizabeth Jannuzzi I recently heard a woman with over 30 years of sobriety speak at a 12-step recovery meeting. She’d been around the block—could explain the history of Alcoholi...
Ann Tashi Slater talks with author Lauren Groff about surrendering to reality, mending broken relationships, and writing novels underwater. The post On Grace, Melancholy, and Takin...
"At the end of my life, I know I won’t be wishing I’d held more back, been less effusive, more often stood on ceremony, forgiven less, spent more days oblivious to the secret wishe...
"You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive."
By Anna Vodicka In a famous University of Cambridge lecture, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch instructed young writers: “Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally...
By Kit Carlson I have a new lease on my writing life, and I owe it all to Harriet the Spy. I was just cleaning the guest room, organizing the shelves where we keep the huge collect...
"The miracle is that we rise again out of suffering... The miracle is that we create ourselves anew."
Last year, I wrote about love and shared a story about my granddaughter. I talked about how much I love her and how she never questions that love, even when she makes a mistake or...
Marie and Martha have a fight but Gwyneth makes it better
If you’re deprived of a home, deprived of access to your family, you learn that, actually, being bound to others is the significant thing.
In “Small Town Girls,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips taps her deep connection to West Virginia and the rural life that infuses her writing.
In the biography of St. Catherine, we hear that this holy saint once complained to God with sorrow and frustration that her prayers and offerings could not prevent the loss of salv...
"We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other."
I can only imagine the anguish devout Catholic parents must feel when their child, be they adolescent or adult, moves away from God. They stand sadly by, hoping and praying that th...
How the biblical patriarch Joseph's trials offer a powerful message of hope in Anne Graham Lotz and Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright's new book, "God Won't Leave You There."
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