“If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.” - Kurt Vonnegut Fellow literature nerds will know that just by naming this piece “Why I Write,” I am inviting ...

Good things are meant to be shared. And in my case, journalism has been my way to share with the world, generously.

I write because I am terrified of forgetting. Not the mundane forgetting of where I placed my keys or what I ate for breakfast, but something more profound — the forgetting of who I was at a ...

Have you ever lost a loved one who left important words unsaid? Did you wonder if they really loved you, or did you have an argument with them right before they died? As a hospice nurse and the ...

Most education coverage in America focuses on teachers, professors, or the institutions themselves. The system, not the student, dominates the headlines. We hear endlessly about teachers’ unions, ...

(RNS) — Since childhood, I’ve been a regular target of ignorance and bigotry. My experience contributed to my becoming a scholar of history and religion, but more than that, it has given me a clearer ...

TL;DR: Why does AI writing still sound like AI writing, even as the models get smarter? In his first piece since joining Every as Spiral’s general manager, Marcus Moretti explains why the answer is ...

I started writing about my grief way before I realized I was grieving. My 5-year-old daughter had just been diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease, and I wrote an essay about how the news was ...

An obituary may well be the hardest thing to write. It has to be composed in a hurry during a period of bereavement. Those closest to the person who died may not be in a condition to write it. The ...