The Healing Power of Poetry: Appreciating a Primal Pleasure
One of our earliest and most fundamental pleasures as humans is the sensory delight of language. Studies are finding that reading and writing poetry can have a therapeutic effect.
Reconnecting with Wonder: When Were You Last Amazed?
Why should children have a monopoly on wonder? How we can rediscover the marvelous — and why we need to do it now more than ever.
Mother's Day 2015: Struggling with Being a Mother and a Writer
As Mother’s Day 2015 approaches, I feel called to write about a subject I’ve lived intimately, a subject I’ve explored in The Conditions of Love and is now shaping my new novel Digging To China—the conflict many women feel between their creative and domestic selves.