The new year has begun — an arbitrary day on the calendar but a necessary one to mark the passage of time and to orient ourselves to the changing seasons of the world and our lives. On Sunday ...

Confession time: a blank piece of paper terrifies me. I call it “page fright.” No matter how many poems I’ve written, it all comes down to this: when I finish one poem it is time to start ...

Latasha Jordan’s favorite budgeting tool is a blank sheet of paper. The 39-year-old from Durham, N.C., folds the page into three sections twice, an act of organizational origami she refined over ...