It helps me say hello to spring - and shed the old me every year.

"When I reached out to my husband, his phone was turned off. For more than two hours, the pit grew as he remained unreachable and our adult children began to sense something was wrong." ...

I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic. “I have ...

Samantha North, a blogger who runs two websites, started experimenting with AI tools last year. She found they helped her generate ideas related to topics and write elements of her blogs. She shared ...

The air is chilly, the leaves have fallen, and I’m getting sick of pumpkin spice lattes. All this can mean only one thing: It’s time for me to worry about my family’s annual holiday letter. Of all the ...

At the rear of my classroom, for the better part of 30 years, hung a poster which read, “Life is Weird – Write About It.” And my students did. Some complained, at first. Others begrudgingly jumped ...

And the best part is, I didn't spend a dime.

My father was always writing, as far back as I can remember. Whenever he found more than a moment for himself, he was buried in a book or writing longhand on foolscap paper with multiple open tomes ...

My Gmail account was hacked a week ago — Saturday, Nov. 9, at 5:19 p.m. Approximately 200 people got an e-mail from bilbau@gmail.com asking them to open an "important document." Even though I was on ...

When board members of the Northeast Neighbors neighborhood group were researching the development agreement applied for by Century West Partners, the developer of 3032 Wilshire Blvd. at Berkeley ...