When my Executive Editor at Random House asked me not to leave, I told her I would stay under one condition. "Give me my boss's job."...

I got home from an errand. Hubby and Girl Child were both out. I opened the hall closet to get the dog bags out, and then went to let our...

I don't believe in New Year Resolutions. Statistically speaking, chances are good you don't either. Most people abandon New Year...

I think the way we teach people to write in this country is all wrong. We focus on grammar, spelling, on 5-part essays with a proper...

Sophomore year of college, I took a poetry class with the great Nicholas Samaras. Each week, we studied a different form of poetry....

Here's a question I ask every candidate I interview: What's the last great book you read? Catch: It can't be a business book. It always...

I've noticed an increase in the number of job posting and freelance gigs that call for a copywriter to also do some level of image...

8:15 a.m. Baby Girl and I had just started to wake up. This is my favorite time of day. She's smiling, giggling, snuggly. We're warm and...