If you’re married or have been, think back to one or more of the worst “disagreements” you as a couple experienced. Jim and I had some doozies, but in each case, one or the other of us backed down from having to be “right” and got on with the business of getting...

The dictionary defines love as “a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person." Where does love come from? Atheists have trouble with this and describe it as an illusion, the effect of unconscious physical causes or a biological reaction. Sexual love...

You’re 30 years old, unemployed and sitting by a river, when four job interviewers arrive on a fierce wind. Each has four faces—human, lion, ox, eagle—and wings that touch each other. And wheels! Big ones that intersect and move sideways, as well as up and down. The...

Here’s the story. The ER staff at Hartford Hospital works frantically on a comatose woman, but despite their efforts, she stops breathing. Two tries with defibrillation paddles are futile. The woman is dead. BUT—as the doctor is jotting the time of her death, she...