Archive - Well Worded

Ellified, or How Dogs Will Save Us All

Another well-worded friend takes the helm. Snickers, snorts, and sheepdogs, anybody? by Patrick Palmer

May 16 •

Anne Welsbacher

March 2025

Great writing can be in a list.

Mar 21 •

Anne Welsbacher

February 2025

You can get anything you want from the Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest cultural institution.

Feb 7 •

Anne Welsbacher

December 2024

The King’s Groom of the Stool

It's what you think it is.

Dec 27, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

Words in Hard Times

Poems pre-date propaganda and will outlast it.

Dec 13, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

November 2024

Writing Holiday Letters

Your only competition is with yourself.

Nov 8, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

October 2024

Writing Spirits

It's scary what can lead to great writing.

Oct 31, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

Or how a gunmaker saw how miraculous it was, and doctors (stop the presses) didn’t.

Oct 25, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

When They Won’t Get Better

What (and if) to write to the dying and their loved ones.

Oct 11, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

September 2024

Move over, Hawkeye Pierce.

Sep 20, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

Living Language

We survived the Ice Age by talking to each other.

Sep 6, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

August 2024

Humans aren’t going anywhere, at least so far.

Aug 23, 2024 •

Anne Welsbacher

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