I always speak to you, my compassionate readers, from my heart. So, I want to tell you that this is the hardest time I’ve had writing a column in the 27 years I’ve been a Cape Cod Times columnist. I ...

In his years of writing columns, Jerry Apps says he's learned the power of a story and a way to connect to readers.

Any day that I have a column coming out in the New York Times is a good one. The megaphone of the Times' edit page is rather ridiculous. I'm half-expecting Kendrick Lamar himself to text me -- not ...

In what might have been 1979, I was invited to a nearby elementary school to talk to students about writing. The children were led into the school gym, where they sat cross-legged on the floor while ...

Before I wrote this final article, I went back into my old documents and read my first Freshman column. In it, I wrote about the things I carried to New York, I shared my expectations for college, I ...

New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica is out with a new young adult sports book, The Big Field, and he joined Meredith this morning to talk about it. WATCH VIDEOBefore that segment, Mike and I ...

Most people seem to have no idea the amount of toil that goes into writing a column such as this one. For some reason they seem to think that someone (like me) just sits down and spews out a bunch of ...

Attention Sierra authors and aspiring writers. One of the significant effects of the internet is the availability of so much educational tools and materials. For writers, applications like Grammarly ...

The Daily Inter Lake swept the category for best column writing in the Montana Newspaper Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest. The trifecta was a highlight for the Daily Inter Lake staff, ...

With this, my 900th column, I can't help asking myself why I've stayed with it this long. If you've been reading my columns for the past 22 years, you may be asking yourself the same question. Let's ...