When my daughter was six, I bought a leather journal. I wrote a note to her almost every day. Sometimes it would be a life lesson. Sometimes it would simply say, “I love you.” Other days it might be ...

What do you genuinely care about? It’s a deceptively simple question, but one we often neglect answering for ourselves. As a result, we tend to focus our efforts and energies on tasks that don’t truly ...

Many people ask me what it means to know your power and what does it mean to become empowered. Becoming self-empowered means you come face to face with who you really are and what you really want.

Beautiful writing has always moved me, like this line from “The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury: "Now only the night moved in the souls of the two men bent by their lonely fire in the wilderness; darkness ...

Sixteen-year-old Quonesha bends over a notebook, writing the story of her day: Once I made it to Creative Writing Class, I turned into “Super Power Writing Woman” … I just kept writing and writing and ...

What do Malcolm X, Oscar Wilde, and the 6th-century Roman senator Boethius have in common? They all wrote some of their best work from prison. Nobel Prize recipient Wole Soyinka spent 22 months in a ...