It takes a village to raise a child, and, judging from acknowledgement pages and how…

Why is creativity so nourishing? Why on a busy trip does an hour with watercolors settle…

Picture a tower of colorful building blocks.In a nursery school, this tower is likely constructed…

Despite publishing openly and widely about so much in my life, you may notice that…

So you’re at the sink, washing up the breakfast dishes when a writing idea pops…

The following list is compiled from readers of my 2024 Year in Books list, which…

I wish I could be again the reader I was at age twelve, when each…

I’d like to make a confession. On Sunday mornings, I sit in church internally spinning…

I’ve heard sculptors say that, when a piece isn’t working, the best way forward isn’t…

Unsurprisingly, these days I’ve been pondering the word “release”. Prisoners are released from jail, butterflies…

As I begin the bizarrely self-referential work of releasing The Release, I’m test-driving the teachings I…

Your writing projects are your babies.  Sometimes you dream about them before conception; sometimes they emerge…