The personal essay is an essential component of your application. How compelling it is — or isn't — can make or break your acceptance.

After three talks, I've distilled the process into the key steps every speaker should follow to get ready for the stage.

Flint Journal columnist Alan N. MacLeese got around. Fifty years ago this season, so did his plain talk about Santa Claus.

The Boston poet has long been recognized as the first person of African descent in North America to publish a book.

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From their first Zoom call to a 58-minute voice note, Maggie O'Farrell details how she and Chloé Zhao came to co-write the screenplay for 'Hamnet' across continents and time zones.

In the final weeks of 2025, people still have time to make year-end tax moves to take advantage of the changing tax laws - and reduce their tax bills and increase their refunds even more.

As the Philadelphia man explained on The Ramsey Show in a clip posted Nov. 20, the girlfriend’s daughter — who wasn’t ...

The hack: do a gift card + inexpensive useful thing + a short note so it looks planned, not rushed 3 rules: pick a useful ...

There are many ways to measure a child care program's quality. Michigan's Great Start to Quality system is designed to navigate this question.

The Holy Spirit is present throughout the Nativity story. So why is the third person of the Trinity absent from our Christmas ...

Billy Crystal, the ‘All in the Family’ cast and others reacted to the deaths of Rob Reiner and wife, Michele Singer Reiner, who were found dead in their Los Angeles home ...