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Getting Knocked in the Head

Peri Pakroo | Posted 04.22.2013 | Healthy Living
Peri Pakroo

Sure, challenges are great for learning and personal growth, but what if you're trying to create in the moment and you haven't had time to process what you're going through? What if it's just too damn heavy to deal with creatively? That's what I've been grappling with.

The Life of a Student Athlete

Uloop | Posted 04.10.2013 | College
Uloop

Being a student-athlete is a full-time job, it's not easy. But in the end team comradery and a scholarship check at the beginning of the quarter or semester makes it all worthwhile.

Hotels For Personal Space

Tablet | Posted 04.01.2013 | Travel
Tablet

When it's time to really get away, there's nothing quite like the intimacy of a place all your own. These one- and two-room hotels run the gamut from a rural New Zealand farmhouse to a royal Roman residence, and they all come with maximum privacy.

Advice From David Sedaris

Alina Kulesh | Posted 01.30.2013 | Books
Alina Kulesh

Sedaris had everyone in the entire theatre shaking in their seats and rapidly dying of uncontrollable laughter. I could see it then, a headline reading "American Humor Writer Kills Palm Desert Retirees."

Time Flies: Be Here Now!

Donna Henes | Posted 01.07.2012 | Healthy Living
Donna Henes

Time is a sneaky thief, hell-bent on racing toward our mortality. The only way that we can outsmart it is by savoring every precious moment by being fully conscious, focused and conscientious every second.

Why Ditch College?

Danny Wong | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Danny Wong

So I recently made a decision to take some time off of school. I'm not quite ditching university yet. But I am taking some time to find myself.

Life Lessons From a Dying Friend

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Loeb

Given the size of my existing medical debt, a second miracle remission is simply out of the question. The resulting stress would prove to be fatal.

How to Put the Kibosh on a Friendship That Seems Doomed

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Irene S. Levine

How can I avoid hurting someone's feelings and maintain a relationship as a colleague when I don't want to be her friend?

A Lesson About Female Friendship from the Ad World

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Irene S. Levine

When it comes to customer loyalty, women aren't necessarily more loyal than men; it's just that their loyalties take a different form.

4 Very Good Reasons to Have Acute Self Awareness

Margaret Ruth | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Margaret Ruth

Those of us who want authentic, healthy relationships have no choice but to know ourselves, so that others may know us as well.

Notes from a Dad of Children Like Barack

Roderick Spencer | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Roderick Spencer

The proof of my children's lack of anxiety over their racial identity, is the amused, slightly puzzled way they watched their parents bawling our eyes out in front of Barack Obama's victory speech last night.