Writers focus on one of those subjects, thinking and scribbling about it until a chunk of text emerges that can stand on its ...

We believe that some of these books will eventually land on every end-of-year, best-of list come next December – but we’re ...

"I went and talked to the only person I felt might really understand my need to not mother: my mother." View Entire Post › ...

Recently and with great sadness, my husband and I left our beautiful home in St. Paul, Minn., and moved to the Cincinnati area. Our adult son decided to do the same, settling not far from us. The ...

Division on whether an OU student should have received a zero on her essay, but most agreed that her free speech rights had not been violated.

For any annual event two decades old, it’s fair to say it has staying power. Fitting that description, the Christmas in My Hometown concert, a Broadway-style production that boasts more than 100 ...

There are plenty of distractions to deal with in our modern digital age—see if you can manage to get all the way through this article without turning your attention elsewhere at least once, for ...

Welcome to My Hometown -- virtually, for now. The My Hometown: The Bruce Springsteen Story Center in Freehold, a collaboration between Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at ...

J.R. Sullivan is bringing his Hometown Holiday show back to Rockford for two performances in December. The show will be held at the RPL Nordlof Center, 118 N. Main St., according to a community ...

Reading and writing were always my favorite subjects when I was in school, and I can still remember when I was taught that a proper paragraph had five sentences in it. It was probably around fourth ...

A high school teacher went viral this week with a video showing his students’ horrified reaction to his instructions to write a paragraph. When he clarifies that a paragraph means five complete ...

There was a time when nearly every airplane made in America used lights manufactured in Urbana, Ohio, my hometown. When the economy was good, my mom soldered those lights at Grimes Manufacturing, ...