Our need for closure runs deep. Without it, old memories intrude like uninvited guests, resurfacing with regret, anger or ...

Follow these 10 resolutions for 2011, and you'll find more grant-writing success. As one year ends and another begins, I always think it’s a good idea to go back and review the basics of grant writing ...

I have made seven writing resolutions for 2012. I may not fulfill them, but that’s OK. For me to be most productive, I need to set some trajectories for my writing, including some that imagine what ...

The scene is all too familiar for Sean Daley: He’s out at a bar in his native Minneapolis, and someone who looks vaguely familiar approaches him and says, “Yo, man, I can’t believe you dropped me in ...

I don't write in books. I don't even like writing my name in them, even though my mom taught me I should. If I do, it's usually in pencil, lightly. I suppose it's for the same reason that I keep all ...

When it comes to making New Year's resolutions, it's pretty easy to find yourself feeling inspired — yet totally worried. Keeping up with resolutions is much more difficult than saying you'll do them, ...

Last summer, I asked a group of middle schoolers why they liked to write. “Because it makes what’s inside real to other people,” one said. Bingo, I thought. She nailed it. Although writing can ...

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