What's your favorite Thanksgiving memory? I think about being a kid, and watching the Thanksgiving Day parade while the house filled with delicious smells...

Lately, as my Labrador retriever has been reaching the final days of a long, happy life, I have felt moved to sit with her and share...

There are many relics in our home—objects to which important memories are attached. You probably have some, too.

This is the very pumpkin pie my grandmother made—almost. She was a modern woman who knew how to follow recipes...

Imagine that you are standing in front of a group of colleagues, or your entire class, about to give a presentation.

Over ten million people have now watched online a 20-minute talk called "The Power of Vulnerability." It's a talk by Brené Brown, a researcher on the topic.

Why is it so hard to be vulnerable? Vulnerability is both necessary to create the real connections we crave as human beings, and it involves the risk of being rejected for the true and vulnerable selves that we might share with others.

A friend of mine slipped on the ice and broke her ankle one winter and was laid up for weeks and weeks. As I expressed my sympathy for her misfortune and suffering, a surprising phrase slipped out of my mouth.

Traveling home at the end of a really hot day, I got to Grand Central Terminal and made my way down to the 7 train like I always do.

The whole time between Thanksgiving and Kwanzaa is filled with days of remembrance. In the weeks around the winter solstice those of us in the Northern Hemisphere remind ourselves that we live in a universe where light will push aside the dark...