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.

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.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

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.