One of my main goals as an eighth-grade teacher was to normalize mistakes so that my students were willing to take risks in their writing. They were so terrified of not “getting it right” that their ...

The term "midlife crisis" has been around for decades and has a major branding problem. The word crisis has a negative connotation. We think of a breakdown, a lack of clarity or a downward spiral.

The first time that I ever really failed at something in college, I did not cry or call home. I just sat there staring at the email. It was one that I didn’t even need to click on — the subject line ...