Louise Hay: The First and Last Voice I Hear
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Writing about the things that shape how I see the world.
Reading "The Summer Book" in Winter
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A small world—one island, one season, a handful of characters—brings large questions into focus.
Read MoreA Little Something Extra
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Over the holidays, I read Plain and Simple, a book by the late Sue Bender, an artist and psychologist who became obsessed with Amish quilts and dolls, and found a way to live among their makers. Their reality sometimes unsettled her—but it only deepened her appreciation.
Read More"Mouchette": The Privilege of the Wretched
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Mouchette, a French peasant girl whose name means “little fly,” is a pest to the people around her. Scrunched up and defensive, she clomps through a rough world where words have little value—even the ones that might save her life.
Read MoreHere Comes "The Sun"
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After The Sun printed my letter about an essay that moved me, I saw how the magazine keeps readers and writers in conversation about the human spirit.
Read MoreThe Quiet Persistence of Poet Spencer Reece
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Hundreds of rejections later, he sold something. That poem changed his life.
Read MoreThe Book Club That Didn't Read Me
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