Look, let’s be honest. No one wakes up and thinks, “Boy, I wish I had cancer,” but here we are. For me (and I am just me, we are all individuals) I chose to learn from the experience and change my ...

A friend of mine is a nurse with years of experience in palliative care. Her patients are often in considerable distress, understandable as they typically have less than a year to live. Whenever she ...

One of the most stressful parts of study abroad preparation in August was also one of the most routine: packing. I found it surprisingly overwhelming to look at all of my clothing, school supplies and ...

It's easy to stop noticing what we love about our lives. NPR's Life Kit has tips from cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot on how to fall back in love with life's small joys. Sometimes you have a blah ...

Do you ever stop and wonder what your life would be like if you’d been born 100 years earlier? What a monumental difference, I sometimes think, if I happened to have been born in the nineteenth ...