Take it from award-winning poet, Mary Oliver. Too much planning can kill creativity. Let your words run wild to reach creative nirvana.

Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928. I was lucky enough to hear her speak and will never forget her power and her presence in our world.

I was lucky enough to hear Maya Angelou in person, an unforgettable experience. Her work has influenced my writing, my world, and my life.

Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Act is not an easy read, but a valuable one; a look at how to be humble in a world focused on "self."

Loving the neighbors' children is different from loving your own...less responsibility and worry, more joy; joy that is doubled with twins.

National Pencil Day is March 30th in honor of a tool that made writing possible for the common man. Here are fun facts about pencils.

People know Henry David Thoreau for his words, but most don't know that he was a great businessman and driver of the Thoreau Pencil Company.

Grieving Those Who Are Alive But Not What They Used to Be Photo by John Torcasio on Unsplash Honest. Raw. Painful…Helpful and Healing...

Every writer hears the standard advice: Write every day. But if they don't also READ every day, they can't be successful.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has "gifted" more than 150 million books to children throughout the world. She's a true book hero.

Writers have a process, a routine, a way of getting their creative mojo flowing. For many, their muse speaks best when they hold a pencil.

Backman gradually drew me in, weaving threads of detail and story into a fine tapestry of literary art. I came to love the book.

Gilead is a tribute to the skill of a writer who created a literary work that is readable, relatable, and wondrous all at the same time.

If you love to travel, but you also love your books, you know how hard it is to decide which ones to take with you. 5 Tips for Choosing.

By Fredrik Backman Call it “Literary Luck” Sometimes, I read something that, by coincidence, is perfectly timed with an upcoming holiday....

I can't. "The Year" says it all. “We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear. And that’s the burden of the year.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox I love it...

A picaro novel is based on an outsider who wanders around seeing the best and worst of humanity. This Tender Land is one great picaro novel.

Eloquent or not... The Top Ten Quotes of 2020 Every year, Fred Shapiro, a librarian at Yale, compiles a list of the top ten quotes of the...

The creation of the pencil helped bring about the Renaissance. The simple, little pencil gave common people the ability to write.

You CAN work without writing Brain blocks and brain breaks Ever had a day when the words are stuck like Gorilla Glue to the inside of...