I live right near Boston's Logan Airport so my main Marathon experience happens just before and after the race, when my normally sedate T (subway) line fills up with hundreds of incredibly skinny, fit, and exuberant people from all over the world who have flown in to take part. I ...

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Below is a lovely meditation on procrastination and the virtues of persistence from Sven Herselman.  Used with kind permission. Procrastination, I'm the master of it, or maybe it's sometimes the master of me. I also enjoy going camping, but I have to admit that even though I have been living ...

Some good insights in this article on overcoming perfectionism. The author, psychologist Anna Deeds, also discusses how she overcame her perfectionist tendencies when writing online: When I started writing online, I used to read every post 5 or 6 times before I would publish it. You won’t get many posts ...

I had never looked closely for a long period at a dying person. I had never listened to the strained breathing of a body barely functioning and had never put my head beside a man too weak to speak, smelled his pungent breath and silently shared his day in, day ...

Useful tips on how to have a constructive dispute with your family. People tend to fight more during transitional times, like when you're leaving for/coming home from work. So work on staying cool during those times. (Time management, which will help you overcome the morning and evening rushes, can help.) ...

A short but vivid description of one woman's struggle. The writer gets so much right: that it's a trap that it often begins in childhood In high school: "I sat before my Spanish teacher in tears over a B+." Heavy involvement with ballet, an endeavor that "required excellence." As an ...