Katharine's Writer's Block

Lately, I’ve been practicing cooking pancakes. I’ve learned that cooking them on my mini-griddle makes them really thick but not done in the middle. I get the slender size and circular shape that I like when I pour right into the middle of a hot, open skillet, but the batter has to be the right amount and consistency as well--not too little and not too runny. There’s a delicate balance to it. Writing with English vocabulary has a similar delicate balance. One wrong word can c

I kept diaries as an adolescent. I imagine them as something like a rite of passage, a tradition practiced during certain stages of life. The teen diary is something popular, yet sacred. On one hand, works like Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl to the Princess Diaries and to Diary of a Wimpy Kid show how literature and entertainment have embraced both the diary-keeping act as well as their contents at times. Yet on the flipside, some diaries are marketed with key locks or

Today’s lesson is loosely based on a Twitter post... The fuller context of this remark is within a growing battle between human- and...

Blog, blogging, blogger...these are commonplace words that have gained traction in society within the last twenty to thirty years. As...