Essay by Steve Adams
For days, weeks, even months, you slog onward as if hacking through switchgrass with a machete.
Writer's Life
Wish I Could Quit You
Jan 08, 2014
I Write, Therefore I Cook
Dec 04, 2013
Essay by Fred Setterberg
Dinner gets done. Books get abandoned, bungled, finished, finally published, and ultimately forgotten.
Wordless: Writer’s Block and Grief
Oct 28, 2013
Essay by Lorraine Berry
Last spring and summer, my voice—and my writing—deserted me.
Enough With the Copy
Apr 15, 2013
Essay by Christine Grimaldi
Nora Ephron’s pearls of wisdom could not make the grain of sand at their core any less irritating.
Teaching Writing When the Unimaginable Happens
Mar 18, 2013
Essay by Lorraine Berry
I assumed that Columbine had nothing new to teach me this time around, but my students showed me I was wrong.
A Shy Writer Learns to Market Herself
Jan 14, 2013
Essay by Kelcey Parker
I am a shy person. I have struggled my whole life to put myself out there.
A Tale of Two Polands
Nov 26, 2012
Essay by Richard Zimler
On November 20, 2011, I became the first person in my family to walk Brzeziny’s slanting, potholed streets in nearly seventy years.
Ode to Banana Bread
Oct 10, 2012
Essay by Fran Cronin
Essential to preparing for work is getting things organized. But—first things first—I need to make my coffee.
A Hermit in Chelsea
May 14, 2012
Essay by Robert Boucheron
Like Walden was for Thoreau, Chelsea was my experiment in living simply.
Singed by the Flames
Mar 19, 2012
Theme Essay by Jeremiah Horrigan
It’s easy to spot hypocrisy in others, not so easy to spot it in oneself.
