During my New York years, I was invited to be a writer in residence in Vermont at the summer home of a doctor and his wife. I ...

Nobody but the perilously naive these days expects to become a writer and get rich. Perhaps more are surprised by how hard it is to become a writer and actually get writing. A vocation increasingly ...

I was not born a writer. In fact, for the majority of my life, I loathed writing. I struggled to string a sentence together. I always felt dumb because grammar and syntax were inscrutable to me. Every ...