"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 ...

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 ...

Writing yourself a letter is a good way to identify the things in your life that matter — as well as those things that you can let go. By Melissa Kirsch A few weeks ago, a reader of The Morning told ...