I started dating a widow in her late 40s who pays by credit card but immediately transfers the purchase amount to pay off her card, instead of waiting until the end of the month to pay off her balance ...

I’ve written about anxiety for years. Its biology, its persistence, its cunning. But recently, during a spell of ...

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the community, its people, and its past.

Those of us who know good reason can see no good reason for a special session of our legislature. There are better, ...

Gamifying my life with NotebookLM started as a random experiment. Over a few weeks, it changed how I approached my goals, ...

Unlike millennial women, the Gen Zers junk journaling on my TikTok feed are less concerned with the constraints of the world ...

From my journal: I can’t go to the gym ... You're allowed to feel like shit. Later, I’d write: I have no idea what I'm doing.

The explosion of novels about intense female friendships, in the Elena Ferrante mold, is changing the genre—and making it ...

Store your notes in one place. Use the same headings each time so entries are easy to scan. Keep tools simple: one notebook ...

The Atlantic C.E.O.—and author of “The Running Ground”—discusses four books about how demanding physical pursuits can change ...

The best formal education of my life came through two professors at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, when I was doing master’s work in creative writing and acting. Anne Greene and John ...

Journalism and fiction are both essential to a thriving democracy.