Maya Angelou on Living
Letters to My Daughter is both a simple and a complex read, which makes it at once engaging and thoughtful. Simple because we can see ourselves in the various stories it shares. Complex because it …
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou on Haters, Life, Reading, and Love
I’ve been slowly working my way through some of Maya Angelou’s material. Notably, Conversations with Maya Angelou, Letters to my Daughter, and What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self. …
Maya Angelou: The Most Important Virtue
“I’ve always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it.” The legendary poet and writer Maya Angelou passed recently at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86. I first …
Daily Routines of Famous Creatives: Artists, Writers, Composers
What can we learn from the working habits of famous writers, artists, and composers? And how did they find time each day to do their work? After reading Mason Currey’s fantastic book, Daily …