Once Upon a Time: Marvelous Maurice Sendak
When a feeling is heard, it becomes safe and friendly. It's only when wild things (or emotions) are locked away that we have reason to fear them.
When a feeling is heard, it becomes safe and friendly. It's only when wild things (or emotions) are locked away that we have reason to fear them.
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
Men don't talk because the very vocabulary for day-to-day life has been so dominated by a female frame of reference that we've lost the ability to explain ourselves in any meaningful way.
Sophie Keller | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
It is so easy to carry around unexpressed emotions, especially if you grew up in a family who used impregnated silences in a passive aggressive way to...
Margaret Ruth | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living
Economists have an analysis technique to identify and compare all expenditure and benefits of a given project; cost/benefit analysis. There's a similar energetic rule for interpersonal associations.
Margaret Ruth | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
If one person has done something such as become healthier, develop new interests or changed what s/he wants in a friendship, then the friendship has to change along.
Amy Nebens and Jara Negrin | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
The thank-yous we constantly remind our kids to say are mostly an instinctual need to instill manners, but the reality is that the appreciation we receive does have a positive effect.
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
I love the recent changes to the Times Wedding Announcements because they reflect New York as it truly is -- a city full of different kinds of people. The changes could go further. I have some suggestions.
Christina Patterson | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
If Princess Diana's death marked the official launch of the Age of Hysteria, Michael Jackson's surely marks its heyday. We're all reviewers now, all critics in the grand opera of How We Feel.
Margaret Ruth | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
The rule is that it takes Two Happy Healthy Whole People to make One Happy Healthy Whole relationship -- and there are No Exceptions to this rule.
womansday.com | Jennifer Matlack | Posted 06.22.2009 | Living
You're in a lousy mood and want to feel better fast. What you need is a happiness fix--right now! Try one of these spirit-boosting tips to jump-start ...
Margaret Ruth | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living
Those of us who want authentic, healthy relationships have no choice but to know ourselves, so that others may know us as well.
Margaret Ruth | Posted 04.25.2009 | Style
So, the best answer for the question: "Will we ever get back together?" is "Act as if you never will."
H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living
My client, Mr. Al-Ghizzawi, told me during one of our first visits about a flower that was outside his cage at Guantanamo, just sticking out of the desert terrain, by itself.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
Some will say "No Name-Calling Week" is more accurately called "PC Police Week." After all, an offensive term over the dinner table might be applauded in a rap song.
Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks | Posted 11.03.2008 | Living
John McCain's body-language patterns are about as subtle as the flashing lights on a sign that says "Danger Ahead."
Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks | Posted 10.06.2008 | Living
Even though we are celebrating our 28th anniversary of living and working together, we are just as passionate about creating conscious relationships a...
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living