Love is in the air this week, and it’s time to honor those you care about. While Valentine’s Day is a good time to focus on rewiring your relationships, we’re fans of thinking about how to improve ours year-round—and we’ve found that Twitter is a great resource for finding advice and insights. Here are seven of our favorite relationship experts to…
Valentine’s Day brings up so many memories of growing up. Years before I was interested in boys, my father was my Valentine—a tradition we maintained until he passed 12 years ago. He always sent a huge bouquet of flowers to my mom and smaller ones to my sister and me. I remember when we were working together years later, he…
Valentine’s Day has always been about rituals. The holiday has its roots in an ancient Roman fertility festival called Lupercalia, which celebrated early spring, fertility, ancestors, and love. Single girls would write their names and place them into an urn. Each bachelor would pick a name out of the urn and then spend the year with that girl—thus ensuring fertility…
You hear it on talk shows. It’s mentioned in every romantic comedy at least a trillion times. And it’s something we men have been told we have a problem with since the dawn of time. It’s intimacy, of course. I recently attended a class on “developing deeper intimacy in our relationships,” a proposition that both intrigued me and, as it…
How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier by Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman
On my 50th birthday I was presented with a little green box that could only contain something small and possibly expensive, like jewelry. Inside was a sparkly diamond in a platinum setting. I was surprised, to say the least, because the ring came from my mother. Included in the box was a handwritten note: My mother gave this to me, and…
What’s wrong with teenagers? Why do many of them take dangerous risks? Why do they care more about their friends than their families? And why do they lead lives of such high drama and intense self-expression? According to renowned psychologist and bestselling author Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., there’s nothing wrong with teenagers. In his new book, Brainstorm: The Power and…
When I was a little girl I wanted more than anything to take horseback riding lessons. Instead, my mother signed me up for ballet. The barre exercises were boring. We never once got to twirl like real ballerinas did, and at recital time we just ran flat-footed and thumping across a stage. But the part of ballet I hated most…
Calling me a hopeless romantic is an understatement. Perhaps because I’m a writer, I spend a lot of time in my imagination. And like most women, I’ve done my fair share of fantasizing about how I’ll meet my Prince Charming. Some of my friends dream of locking eyes over a coffee at Starbucks. For others, their hat blows off into…
