Ellen Blum Barish (C81, GJ84) is a Chicago-area writer and adjunct writing instructor at Northwestern. Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at letters@northwestern.edu.

Thirteen years ago, at the height of the June Virginia heat, we stood in front of our family and friends and repeated these traditional vows to each other, “To have and to hold from this day forward, ...

“When you have to write in complete sentences with narrative structure, it’s really hard to hide sloppy thinking,” the Amazon founder once explained. He’s not the only super-smart business thinker who ...

One of the most popular posts I’ve written for my Psychology Today, Soul Console, is “How to Make Writing a Sacred Practice With ‘Scriptio Divina.’” Scriptio divina is a modern twist on an ancient ...