In what might have been 1979, I was invited to a nearby elementary school to talk to students about writing. The children were led into the school gym, where they sat cross-legged on the floor while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I always speak to you, my compassionate readers, from my heart. So, I want to tell you that this is the hardest time I’ve had ...

One day when I was speaking to a third grade class, one little girl asked, "How long does it take to write a column?" "A lifetime," I told her. And truly, we carry a lifetime around in our brains. For ...

WHERE DO YOUR TEXTS COME FROM? What's at SAAM is my writing that I use less and less all the time. But I haven't a clue where that comes from, other than my dark past, maybe. I'm more likely to use ...

Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Columnist LZ Granderson has received the Excellence in Column Writing Award in the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists Excellence in Journalism Awards competition. The ...

Writing is the best way I know to clarify my own thinking. On any given subject or issue, I usually find my head swimming with a lot of random thoughts, some consistent and some contradictory, which I ...

I had a great idea for a column this week. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. After about 20 minutes of deep soul-searching, it occurred to me that some of you might be wondering how I write these columns.