"Turning 40 this year came with a lot of reflection, and it showed up in ways I didn't expect," Chris Salvatore writes in an essay for ​Out​.

Reflective and reflexive writing needs to do more than just describe what you have learned. You need to make connections between your experience and prior learning, reflect on how and why your ...

In the waning days of President Barack Obama’s administration, he and his wife, Michelle, hosted a farewell party, the full import of which no one could then grasp. It was late October, Friday ...

A reflection essay goes beyond recounting events. It challenges you to explore experiences, uncover lessons, and connect personal growth to bigger ideas. Unlike research papers built on external ...

The Joke I tell that no one laughs at goes like this: I picked a pretty rough time to actually want to be alive; in retrospect, back when I wanted to die, things were not actually all that bad.