Let's face it. For some of us, this is a lousy time of year.

It doesn't matter if the economy is good or bad, if the country is at peace or at war. As soon as the Halloween decorations go back in the attic, there's the old familiar knot...

If you find yourself lurching from obligation to obligation this holiday season, wondering why you are not in the mood for shopping, parties, or celebratory hoop-lah, why not give yourself permission to stop performing and spend a few moments thinking about what Christmas means to you.

If there was one...

The past few times I tried to phone my Huffington Post colleague Dr. Alex Pattakos, I reached a "number that has been disconnected." Alex, who should win a "Soul of Patience" award, emailed me his correct phone number at least three times. En route to its destination in the "P"...

As a reformed adrenaline junkie, it is all too easy for me to get swept away on a tide of e-words: excitement, exuberance, enthusiasm, excellence, and euphoria top the list. For there is no high like living a dream come true.

We adrenaline junkies know too well the post-euphoria let-down....

The Governor of Alaska has "bossy woman cheeks." The message of her "politician's jaw?" My way or the highway!

According to the ancient Chinese art of face reading, our faces contain maps of our personality traits. It may sound like a parlor game, but face reading is considered...

Dr. Omer Salih Mahdi will never forget the day he killed the baby.

"It was a few months after the Americans arrived in 2003. A pregnant woman came into our emergency room, " he said. She needed a Caesarean section but the three surgeons on duty were caring...

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. And finally you do it for money.

I wish I could take credit for those lines but they were written by a non-WGA writer named Moliere. According to my 1958 edition of...

In thinking about Fathers' Day, it struck me that yet another opportunity for honoring the experience of parenting has turned into a commercial ritual of obligatory shopping. With that in mind, I was glad to catch up with my friend Dr. Wayne Dyer, best-selling author and father of eight children...

In the world of dreams, even a mundane laundry basket can communicate something out of the ordinary. When I dreamt of a slick yellow cobra coiled in the jumble of my daughter's laundry basket, it woke me up with a sense of foreboding. In a literal sense, cobras do not...