Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I always speak to you, my compassionate readers, from my heart. So, I want to tell you that this is the hardest time I’ve had ...

The upcoming week marks this column’s 18th anniversary. I almost can’t believe it. It feels like far longer. It almost feels like I’ve been writing it since … “forever ago.” From church signs to chalk ...

In what might have been 1979, I was invited to a nearby elementary school to talk to students about writing. The children were led into the school gym, where they sat cross-legged on the floor while ...

Today, you're reading something special: my 150th Bottle Shots column. That many weekly columns may just be a drop in the bucket compared to my predecessor, Lorri Hambuchen, who famously held this ...

WHERE DO YOUR TEXTS COME FROM? What's at SAAM is my writing that I use less and less all the time. But I haven't a clue where that comes from, other than my dark past, maybe. I'm more likely to use ...

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2017. Packing again. This time we’re not going far, but the routine’s the same: nighties, underpants, two ...

Walter Suza of Ames, Iowa, writes frequently on the intersections of spirituality, anti-racism and social justice. It is my dream column. I would have written to say that inside humans’ earliest ...