Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
The people that surround us mirror who we are.
....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.
This is the age, she explained to me once as we walked home from school, when we're the purest forms of ourselves we'll ever be. We haven't been complicated by everything yet. I want to keep a clear r...
Loneliness of heartIn the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and fear...
It's a way of clearing the palate. Kids come into the classroom with all this other stuff in their hands. If they write it down for 10 minutes they become much more available for whatever it is we wan...
Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look th...
Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me that You know them. But I'm stirring up love for You in myself and in those who read this so that we...