Sheila Lukins: Oh, How She Could Cook!
Sheila Lukins's memorial service made us remember the good times, great meals, and unique style of our all-time favorite cook.
Sheila Lukins's memorial service made us remember the good times, great meals, and unique style of our all-time favorite cook.
Nicole Williams | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
A day at the office is so much more enjoyable when you have a work BFF to share your ups, downs, and blueberry muffin with. But office friendships can hurt your career if you don't handle them the right way.
Diana Bianchini | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
As we celebrate all the new ways we can build and maintain relationships this GenXer still feels to really know someone I will have to be able to look in to their eyes. I love my new virtual frontier of professional and personal contacts but miss the old school getting to know you.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
Sometimes people believe they need to obtain closure from another person before they sever a friendship. This isn't true.
Jamie Stiehm | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
There simply doesn't seem to be enough time, even on a slow summer day, to get together and compare notes on the passing parade in the nation's capital.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living
How can I avoid hurting someone's feelings and maintain a relationship as a colleague when I don't want to be her friend?
Tamsen Fadal and Matt Titus | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
Stop talking about current boyfriends around him and when he start to do the same don't be so interested and eager to discuss his romantic escapades, change the subject.
Kari Henley | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
Ask yourself this question: what percentage of time do you spend communicating with friends in person, vs. IM, Tweet, email or text? Has it shrunk con...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living
New York Times reporter John Tierney recently described a study that supposedly showed that "single women are particularly drawn to other people's partners." But his interpretation is not supported by relevant data.
Lesley Stern | Posted 09.13.2009 | Comedy
Facebook is the answer, without spending a cent on even a phone call, you can be the first to know that Nick is bored, lots of people have cute babies and if Mike were an animal, he'd be a "badass tiger."
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living
Audit your friendships -- because having too many bad ones can prevent you from having good ones.
Robert Fuller | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Our distaste for good-byes is a reminder of our unfathomable mutual dependence. An individual self cannot come into being, let alone endure, absent the recognition of others.
Karen Leland | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
My declaration for what little time is left of summer is to spend less time sorting and more time being with family and friends, reading and lying out in sun.
Christine Hassler | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
Dear Christine, "My core group of friends from college make a lot more money then I do. They all dove right into their careers right after college wh...
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living
Unless your teen's health or safety is at risk, resist the temptation to solve friendship problems for her.
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.
Sarah Schmelling | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media
Isn't it a type of rebellion, or just kind of quirky at this point, to not be on a social network? Like not having a phone or an electric can opener?
Marc Hershon | Posted 09.04.2009 | Living
There's something different about Twitter. And it's more than just the poetic brevity of 140 character messages, it can actually be useful!
Richard Laermer | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
As you know, unruly children make the kidless nuts! Pals complain about their messy homes all the time. I tell them: "I didn't tell you to have them."
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
My friendship with my BFF is very important to me but when her husband is in the mix -- things become very uncomfortable.
Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living
We often don't create a space of listening, but instead, rush to fill the space with our own related stories.
David Finkle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living
If you ask me, one of the worst things assaulting the English language in the last few years is the transitive verb "friended."
TIME | John Cloud Friday, Jul. 17, 2009 | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living
Pardon the sexism, but a question: Why are girls so girly? For the better part of the past half-century, feminists, their opponents and armies of aca...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
My conversation with Julie Kraut on her new book dealing with the nearly universal camper affliction: homesickness.
Morton Goldfein | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York