A Weekly Column on Being Human by Wellness Specialist Elizabeth Clayton
Feb 22
I’d been trying to write a story about a close friend who had died, reaching for something beyond my grasp with only puny words to get me there.
Feb 14
If the future of your committed relationship could be predicted with 90% accuracy within 15 minutes based on the presence or absence of four factors when you fight, wouldn’t that be helpful to know?
Feb 07
Putting the house to order before work, I pick up the packaging tape dispenser left on the dining room table and notice the tape has slipped out from the slot it threads through.
Feb 01
Though cancer deaths in the United States have been falling since 1991, that is no longer.
Jan 30
Several lifetimes ago I moved to Washington, DC and married a man who made it a habit to regularly visit the Air & Space Museum.
Jan 17
In terms of ticks, have you been thinking you were off the worry hook for a few months? That winter was a Lyme-free zone? Me, too.
Jan 03
Are you the person you were a year ago? Did you mean to be different?
Dec 27
Quiz time. Between A or B, which goal do you think would be more effective, resolution-wise?
Dec 22
There are moments that rip our heart out, leaving behind in that great yawning loss a glimmer of something precious we may never have noticed or deeply known before.
Dec 13
That phrase, “Just getting through the day,” has always seemed like a lousy way to live, and yet that’s often my sense of how it’s done, how we talk about it..