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Want a Happier Life? Make Friends With Your Inner Critic

Wherever you happen to be on the rewarding and rocky road to a healthier lifestyle, you'll travel more gently and feel more joy if you learn to make friends ...Read more

Healthy lifestyles don't just happen, the way dust balls do, for instance. It's up to you to carpe diem, to let go of old habits so you can dance with new ones -- two steps forward, one step back -- until the new ones become a juicy and joyful part of your life.

Like starting your day with 10 minutes of stretching, not because your back doctor ...Read more

What do you do when you wake up to the world news and it's all horrific and overwhelms you with sadness and despair?

"We're in a global crisis on an enormous scale!" I heard George Stephanopoulos announce one morning, just as I was inhaling my first cup of French roast.

I'd woken up to the sweet, intoxicating call of a loon on a remote lake in...Read more

Dr. Amit Sood -- professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine -- grew up and went to medical school in Bhopal, India. Throughout his medical training, he writes, he experienced "the scourge of poverty, malnutrition and disease" that created tremendous suffering in his country.

In 1995, Sood came to America. He did a two-year ...Read more

"Hit the ball! You're not concentrating!"

"Your baby sister could have caught that!"

"Run! Faster! You're not even trying!"

Lots of parents don't know how to behave when they watch their kid playing. They're loud and obnoxious and supercritical. So how should they act? Differently.

Here are some vital parenting rules to help you ...Read more

Healthy joints make for happy athletes. A bum knee, sore shoulder or painful wrist gets in the way of your best time -- playing tennis, riding your bike, humiliating yourself at golf.

Research shows that more than 80% of all sports injuries involve joints. Ouch! The good news is that there's a lot you can do, and Aleve cannot, to keep your ...Read more

Why is this Mother's Day different from all the others I've been around for?

Because this year, I'm a mom. My unexpected bundle of joy is an 8-month-old named Abraham, funny and smart and remarkably good-natured. And still, he's a handful, and I find myself obsessed with his needs, constantly thinking about all the things I could be doing, ...Read more

Who put the "e" in sports? And how dare they? And why do they even call esports a sport? It bothers me.

I know video gaming is a booming multibillion-dollar business, but so is pet care, and no one's calling that a sport. Sports are strenuous physical activities, such as basketball, baseball, soccer, right? They require strength and skill and ...Read more

Any body, at any age, can suffer a sports injury, but we baby boomers are famous for them. There's actually a term for it -- boomeritis -- and it refers to the high number of sports-related injuries that happen to people born between 1946 and 1964 -- the first generation of Americans who grew up working out, with or without the Jane Fonda leg ...Read more

OK, here's a bit of silliness to start your dendrites dancing: What do Chubby Checker and every yoga class in the world have in common?

Think now. (If you're wondering who Chubby Checker is ... YouTube.)

Yes! It's "The Twist."

Chubby Checker made twisting a wildly popular dance in the '50s, but for thousands of years before him, yogis ...Read more

April showers do bring May flowers -- I can hardly wait! -- but I'm also aware that April is the month that many of my dear readers fall victim to VPJ -- Vacation Planning Jitters.

How many days and how much money can you comfortably spend on something as frivolous as your well-being? Where will you go? Who will go with you? How many pairs of ...Read more

Have you ever tried walking meditation? It's a gentle and giant step into the world of Zen. And in case you've just returned from planet Elsewhere, Zen is trending big here on Earth. There are Zen retreats, Zen smoothies, Zen comics, Zen methods of diapering and accounting and an actual book called "Zen and the Art of Casino Gaming."

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You don't have to be a tennis player or even a Federer fan to love what recently happened to 18-year-old Bianca Andreescu in the final match of the highly prestigious Indian Wells tournament.

She won!

Bianca -- who only qualified for the BNP Paribas Open as a wild card-- beat one of the greatest players in the game, Angelique Kerber, 6-4, 3-6,...Read more