On a recent morning, I had the chance to read poems my ninth-grade English students had written about encounters with racism. I was struck by the beauty and poignance of many of their lines. Yet I ...

Dreaming about getting away and sitting on the beach? Source: Carrie Knowles Eleanor Roosevelt once wrote in her My Day column that you should "Do the thing you think you can’t." That thing, the one ...

Avoidance, by itself, isn’t negative. It makes people think it isn’t a big deal. But imagine how many missed opportunities for growth or connection, in time, add up to a lost relationship or what may ...