If you think words are simply labels for things that already exist, you're wrong. They are conjurers. They bring worlds to life or snuff...

I remember my high school Psychology teacher explaining that the human brain often overlooks information in the middle of something. ...

I was an angsty kid. I remember my grandmother saying something in Italian as she watched me bounce around her living room. When I...

went.   -Omar Khayyam Into this Universe and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the...

From an online comment on Alain DeBotton's New York Times article, Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person: "A world authority on snow safety...

"Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning." John O'Donohue (January 1, 1956-January 4, 2008) I was in Barnes...

As I’ve entered life past fifty, memories press me at every turn. You would think I’m on my way to becoming one of those pitiful senior...

It touches every life on the planet: the need to love and be loved. Its elusiveness has made it a mainstream topic of conversation for...

Words have power. We rarely stop to think about that because they’re so common. We use millions of them every day. Some of us use many...

I found love after five years of divorce. Actually, I found it after three decades, because I don’t consider that my married years were...

Sure, we Gen X women take time for ourselves; in the evenings, we curl up with a good novel or schedule an after-work mani-pedi. We take...

Is it me, or does all the buzz revolve around the Baby Boomers and Millenials? I realized recently that Gen X often gets left out of many...

I recently had a friend insist that I read The Alchemist. An adventure/fiction novel, it felt more like a fable. It tells the story of a...