Stonington — About a month ago, when Alexandra Stoddard sent the completed manuscript of her 29th book off to her editor, she stopped in the borough’s flower shop and bought herself a bouquet of ...

When Texas executes a death row inmate for the murder of Nancy Adelman 27 years ago on Wednesday, Adelman's daughter won't be there. Instead, she's choosing to gather by a river with friends and ...

How to choose joy: ‘Try This’ “Try This” from The Washington Post is a series of audio courses designed to jump-start the parts of life where we could all use a few pointers — with pithy, snackable ...

This feature is coordinated by The Post-Standard, Syracuse.com and InterFaith Works of CNY. Follow this theme and author posted Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Every day I make a conscious decision to ...

Joy! When is the last time you used that word in a sentence? When is the last time you felt joyful? It is a sad commentary on our lives if we say that we can’t remember. Like love, we think we know ...

But as someone who has written about psychology for 15 years, one particular part of Oprah’s rousing speech stuck out to me as relevant to entrepreneurs, no matter who they support for president. When ...

Happiness is a basic human emotion. It was categorized as such by famous emotion researcher and psychologist Paul Eckman, who identified the six emotions that are present in all cultures from birth.