"You don’t look like an artist" is a dismissal I've heard since my 20s, when I first entered a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program. It was actually the first thing anyone said to me, at ...

There have been shows about teachers in every era of television, going back to “Our Miss Brooks” and not even including all the many series about teenagers in which teachers have played small or ...

He’s the most decorated Olympian of all time, but don’t think for a second that growing up as Michael Phelps was easy. The 31-year-old swimming superstar —and new father — opened up about his ...

In an interview with NBC’s “Today” show, the teacher, Abigail Zwerner, said she was recovering after a bullet struck her hand and chest at a Virginia elementary school in January. By Christine Hauser ...