Nurse Ana Kanellos, a volunteer, demonstrates home caregiving techniques during Wake’s September workshop at the Healing Center in New Orleans. Wake is a nonprofit organization providing education and resources for death care. Photo courtesy Christiana Botic/Verite...

Photo©MdMamun/123rf We all have those mornings where we wake up and can feel it immediately: the emotional fog has rolled in overnight. Whether it’s a lingering sense of anxiety, a heavy heart, or just a general feeling of being out of alignment with our higher...

Sandhill crane and endangered whooping crane, whose home of an open meadow was turned into a subdivision/construction site. Despite the crane’s ability to fly, leaving a home you found safe to live and raise young is not easy. Photo©Staci-leeSherwood When people think...

Photo courtesy facebook.com/walkforpeaceusa Buddhist Monks Persist In Peace Walk Despite Injuries As Thousands Follow Them On Social Media by AP News A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their walking trek across much of the U.S. to promote peace, even after...

Photo©MathewAditya/123rf The summer after freshman year of college I worked as a camp counselor in Woodstock, New York. It was the loneliest summer of my life. I’d been writing in my journal for two weeks about how alone I felt, how I didn’t fit in with my fellow...

Photo©123rf Health and fitness trends come and go, and many fads don’t deliver on their promises — remember vibrating belts or sauna suits? Today, weighted vests, made from sturdy fabrics like nylon and filled with iron sand or small weights, are gaining widespread...

Photo©KonstantinPelikh/123rf Year after year, Mary Bucklew strategized with a nurse practitioner about losing weight. “We tried exercise,” like walking 35 minutes a day, she recalled. “And 39,000 different diets.” But 5 pounds would come off and then invariably...

Photo credit: Detail from “Portrait of a Woman” (aka The Beguine) by Robert Campin, circa 1430 They weren’t nuns. They weren’t wives. They built their own communities where women could own property, earn money, and leave whenever they wanted —in medieval Europe, when...