News — Writing

HALLIE EPHRON: Recently I was reading an article  by Meredith Goldstein who writes an advice column in the Boston Globe. She was pondering unsent love letters, and asked her readers to send her theirs. Expecting a few, she received a deluge. Reading her article got me thinking about the therapeutic power of writing, and how I often don’t know what I think about something until I write about it. I have no unsent love letters but I do have unsent letters I’ve composed when I felt the need to explain myself to someone whom I’ve managed to piss off. Writing...