VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Helen Hilgeman fell in love with riding horses early on. “When I was around 13 years old, my mom bought me my first horse,” she recalls. Throughout the years, that passion grew. ...

I’ve talked to a former chief of the F.B.I.’s Crisis Negotiation Unit about how to defuse tension during family holidays. Emergency-room doctors about how to avoid accidents. A neuroscientist who ...

Arthur Brooks is a professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School and the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a columnist at The Atlantic, ...

What is happiness? Is it feeling good all the time? Having a sunny disposition? Feeling like you are where you want to be in life? Instead, Rubin says to ask yourself: "Will this make me happier?" ...

In 2000, I published a book called “Rules for Aging,” a sort of how-to guide for navigating the later years of one’s life. I was 60 at the time and thought that I knew a thing or two about being old.