Lou Ann Restad, Nancy Knoell, Karen Droegemueller and Elizabeth or "Betsy" Murnan are all retired teachers, ranging in age from 76 to 95. They may not be teaching, but they are still working, writing ...

Here is a common scene: A supervisor agrees to write your letter of recommendation with one condition—you draft it. Shocker. We, too, were surprised the first time this happened to us. We assumed ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, ...

"What is healing, but a shift in perspective?” — Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast Transactional writing — or letter writing — gets you beyond what you thought you could not get over. With all the other ways ...

Writing romantic love letters can feel like a prehistoric practice these days—where do you even get stamps? (Kidding. Kind of.) But for most of human history, if you wanted to express your feelings to ...

A few years ago, I wrote “A Letter to College Students (From All Profs)” in which I provided advice to students about how to ask for letters of recommendation. Interestingly, just as students do not ...

Sitting in my favorite downtown pub has become a fond memory as New Mexico enters week three of “social distancing” to slow community spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. That was where I often wrote ...

Application Writing is the process of drafting a formal request to someone in an authoritative position to seek permission, ...

Have you been wanting to write online for pay, but feeling freaked out by the long applications and strict approval proc ...

Of all the things I’m sorry my children missed — music on MTV, The Love Boat on Saturday nights and playing Pac Man at an arcade — their biggest loss is never writing letters. A 20-gallon plastic ...

The ease of writing letters on the Apple iPad is entirely dependent on the user's experience with tablets and with touch-screen technology. If you have prior experience with Apple products such as the ...