He may have fudged about the store, but you really can ... and why. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. A hunting knife: When I was fourteen, my dad brought it home for ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

There are no revelations in Love and Need, but Plunkett excels at bringing the poems to life with contextual details ... responses to other poems. He wrote “My Butterfly,” the first poem ...

My favourite translation ... I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile ...

After someone very close to me passed away, I felt God’s presence intensely for the first week or so. He held me up and gave ...

My guest on Poetry from Daily Life this week is Michael Salinger ... “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” That’s the poet’s eye: the conscious effort to see ...

I agree the poem is a treasure. It was written by a former assistant United Nations secretary-general who passed away in 2010 at the age of 87. His words are as relevant today as they were when he ...

I keep a complete copy of Dickinson’s poems on my prayer stand ... But the second line makes a U-turn: living with you, rather, would be capital-L “Life”—too bounteous, too perfect ...

While teaching others has been his focus for most of his adult life ... poems to memory — from the classics to my own work, and I like to use my love of poetry to motivate my students. If I need ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of ... gives this same title to his newest book of poems. Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to ...

Beth Calik, a recent transplant to Petersburg, Virginia, has discovered her passion for poetry. Calik's poem "The Shadows ... Calik shared her motto: Life is like a pond. You throw a stone in the pond ...

If you need a good cry, look no further than the “getting coffee with your younger self” trend on TikTok. It’s one of the sweetest ways to reflect on your life and appreciate how far you ...