“Hi! as you know my name is Xazmin Garza. I’m 11 years old. I’m in the sixth grade. …” That’s how the second page of my first journal begins, Dec. 26, 1988. And, that’s when my fate as a writer began.

(MoneyWatch) I've been reading through Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" at night lately before I fall asleep. It's a magnificent novel of the first years of India's independence, told through ...

Source: Caitlin Regen/2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Sometimes it’s hard to recognize the small incremental ways that we improve from year to year. In a society focused on external accomplishments, we aren't ...