Alone Time

What Your Wife Really Wants (for Mother's Day, That Is)

Eryn Kurin | Posted 05.09.2012

Eryn Kurin

Don't get me wrong -- I appreciate every gift my family is kind enough to give me. Misshapen ceramic ashtray made at school? I'll take up smoking. But as you'll learn, the best gift of all is...

Secretly Seeking Solitude: A Woman's Need for Time Alone

D.G. Fulford | Posted 12.02.2011

D.G. Fulford

Eighty years ago, Virginia Woolf introduced her daring concept: A woman needs time to herself. It is 2011 now, many complicated generations later. How are we fulfilling that need amidst all the clamoring others?

Laura Stampler

Five Best Things To Do Solo This Summer

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Stampler | Posted 08.27.2011

Lots of us think of summer as prime social time and pack our schedules with picnics, barbeques, fairs and festivals, trips to the beach with friends a...

The Importance Of A Little Self-Indulgence

Michele Willens | Posted 11.17.2011

Michele Willens

We defer too much, we delay too often and we therefore deprive ourselves of things that have given us -- and can still give us -- great pleasure.

Does E-Mail Make It Harder to Pray? How the Digital Age Is Changing Spiritual Life

Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 05.25.2011

Rev. James Martin, S.J.

Time for solitude and time for rest -- that is, time away from e-mail, the web, and the latest gadget (sorry, Mr. Jobs) is necessary for "recollection," for some quiet time with God.