For decades, physician and author Silke Heimes has been leading groups in therapeutic exercises to put thoughts and feelings down on paper. Heimes, a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of ...

One of my favorite (and simultaneously most hated) qualities of children is their tendency to be unintentionally blunt. Over the past year, my daughter, son and their little parliament of friends have ...

When you’re in the process of interviewing, one of the questions you’re certain to get is, “Tell me about yourself.” While interviewers will make the inquiry in various forms, it will be a go-to that ...

We live our lives at least twice. Once when events actually happen and again later when we review those events and organize them into some sort of coherent story. Mentally creating these stories comes ...

Good writing can boil a big idea down to its essence, or stretch a fleeting moment into a universal experience. Once a thought is on the page, you can come back to it. You can relate to it, or define ...

For many, writing is a path to healing. It is praised as cathartic, transformative, even redemptive—and often, it is. But as I discovered during my MFA in creative nonfiction, after 35 years as a ...