Writing is an on-going, constructive process. Meeting with a writing tutor at the CFLC can help provide insight and constructive criticism at any stage of the writing process. Writing tutors at the ...

Dear Caught in the Middle, Your letter made me think about the day I called my mother and asked if she would mind if I tried to write a memoir. (“Mind”!! I was so cute.) “It’s fine,” she told me, “as ...

Early in this book’s gestation, Amy Tan thought to call it The Story Behind the Story. That title, though ultimately discarded, is apt in two senses: Tan makes explicit how thoroughly her mother’s and ...

My mother and my sister never wanted me to write about them. Ever. It wasn’t my business, I was told. I should be loyal. I should only say good things about them both. Did I want to be sued? "We have ...

One of the most important lessons I have learned from swaddling myself in a serape of self-care in recent years is this: I am not my thoughts. I am merely a riverside spectator observing them as they ...