Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. This was the place that felt like eternity. It was a period when I ...

What is life without introspection? It’s a question a close friend posed to me just last week and to me, the answer is as clear as day: life becomes meaningless. We often hear this idea about our ...

Simply writing this title has decreased my confidence significantly. Yet now that I realize why I feel self-doubt, I can move forward and write this post. How incredible it is that in a split second, ...

When someone asks how you’re doing, can you respond “I am good”? Or is the only correct form “I am well”? And why? That’s what a caller asked New Yorker copy editor and author Mary Norris on a recent ...

It's Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.

I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.I am the sun. I am the moon. I am the rain, I am the earth. I am these when I am taking mushrooms with Kevin. I am good ...

Some people have an easier time establishing and maintaining friendships than others. And some of us long for closer friendships or try to figure out why an existing or promising relationship fizzled ...

A reader’s patience is wearing thin with an otherwise fun and generous friend who leaves much to be desired as a conversational partner. By Philip Galanes I am good friends with a woman who is kind ...