Find small ways to touch them, such as holding their hand as you walk, rubbing their neck as you watch TV, or giving them a ...

Dear Eric: I have a friend I’ll call “Sally.” She is in her mid-50s and is single with no kids. Both of her parents are deceased. Prior to her mother’s death, she quit her job to care for her. Once ...

Dear Eric: I have a friend I’ll call “Sally.” She is in her mid-50s and is single with no kids. Both of her parents are deceased. Prior to her mother’s death, she quit her job to care for her. Once ...

Dear Eric: Lately I have been kind of a jerk to people around me, and although it is kind of a mystery as to why, I know it is something I need to get a handle on. I just don’t know how. For example, ...

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Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

In August, months after Elon Musk left the federal government, the director of the Office of Personnel Management offered the first hard estimate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s ...

FP Answers: Tax, tax, and more tax! I hear your frustration. It’s like we can’t even take a step without paying tax. As Canadians we are legally allowed to arrange our financial affairs to reduce the ...

“Empathy is a remarkably selfless emotion: it requires a person to leave the comfort of their own perceived place in the world and inhabit the experience of someone else.” - Amber Heard Some years ago ...

Q I never thought I’d be writing this, but I feel desperate and don’t know where to turn. My husband is in his late 40s and, on the surface, everything looks perfect: we have two young children, a ...

Comedian David Cross released a fiery statement on his website Monday condemning the comedians who agreed to perform at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival. “I am disgusted, and deeply disappointed ...

So many letters from readers resonate with me personally – and as the daughter of a parent with vascular dementia, this one particularly hit home. The reader expressed a difficult situation: they have ...