I don’t have a favorite Olympic sport. I’m not an athlete. High school marching band was my team sport. But I do love the Olympic Games, and for me, it’s all about the stories — stories of ...

Life doesn't pause for us to figure out our emotions. Every day, we're making countless decisions, ranging from small to life-changing, with each one revealing something about how we understand ...

I love the story author Jaroldeen Edwards tells in her book “Things I Wish I’d Known Sooner,” when she took a trip with her daughter Carolyn one drab, rainy day. Her daughter wanted to drive more than ...

Cooking on Saturdays at a soup kitchen over the years has taught me one very important lesson: Every ingredient matters. That didn’t come from an older, wiser grandma whose been cooking for years. It ...

What is grit? How does it help people? And why is it an intergenerational flashpoint? A recent event at the University of St. Thomas gathered Minnesota Vikings defensive player Josh Metellus; Tommie ...

If you think back to your childhood, you can probably point to a few important lessons that stuck with you. Well, Redditor AltruisticGate8430 asked, "What is the greatest lesson you learned from your ...

When I was 12, playing Risk, “the game of world conquest,” my father and opponent, Herb Cohen, who’d recently published his bestselling book “You Can Negotiate Anything,” taught me a lesson about deal ...

When I am honest with myself I admit I learn more from failures than successes. They stay in the memory a long time, and no matter how hard I try to remove them, they remain, sometimesfive cropping up ...

Everyday life is full of small behaviors we treat as moral choices, scientific truths, or acts of civic virtue—often without much reflection. From abandoned shopping carts to climate guilt over pet ...

Here we are in this recurring nightmare: Schools open and close with little hope for normalcy. Students, educators, parents, and politicians agonize. No clear path, no clear directives. Record staff ...