Terri Schiavo died this morning. But what I wanted to write about is Schiavo's problems with bulimia, which I have not really seen expounded upon by anyone. Did find this AP piece that states, "It is a cruel twist lost on no one close to the case: A woman who...

A friend turned me on to the blog No Milk Please. Hilarious. I wish I could write as wittily as the author. So coming upon the following quote makes me feel that I can actually improve as a writer, despite all the edits on the latest draft of an article: There...

I'm writing a short article on Robert Boynton, the director of the graduate magazine journalism program at my school and author of The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft. I've read some of the book, and it's very handy for someone who's still trying...

In an article in The New York Times Style Magazine Spring 2005 issue from last Sunday, Karen Moline wrote, "I have always written in other people's houses: a flat in London, a cattle station in Australia, a ramshackle guesthouse in Izmir, Turkey. ... My rationale is simple: I need the...

"I am Aslan, and I'm a symbol for God!" I still remember that's what one of the troupe members said at a performance of Improv Olympics. Over Spring Break, I had the chance to reread some of the Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis. I first read the books when I...