Two expressions I heard spoken yesterday: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." "Why reinvent the wheel?" I hate these expressions. These are words spoken by people who believe in…

The school year begins for me today. This will be my 26th year in the classroom—all in the same school and almost all in the same classroom. It's a school…

A beautiful piano just beyond the security checkpoint in Logan Airport. Available for anyone to play. Hopefully someone with at least a little bit of skill. The Detroit airport has…

Kristen Rogers of CNN wrote an article entitled, "Ghosting is usually a terrible thing to do. Here’s when it’s OK" Rogers quotes psychologist Dr. Jennice Vilhauer, who recently wrote a…

I wrote a letter to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas this week. I wrote more than I initially anticipated (novelists tend to do this), but it was born from genuine…

I'm asked — almost on a weekly basis — if I can help someone become more confident. Someone sees me on a stage or reads something I've written or simply…

I was driving behind this truck last week. If you can't read the sign, it says, "Keep back 300 feet." My thought: What a stupid message. I was driving at…

Vice President Kamala Harris could become the first U.S. President to have worked at McDonald’s. She worked under the Golden Arches for a summer while attending school. It shouldn't be…

Books by Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur, and Sarah J Maas are among 13 titles that the state of Utah has ordered removed from all public school classrooms and libraries.…