I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.