If you would have seen Nora McInerny at her 35-year-old husband’s funeral, you might have thought she’d never looked better. That was the consensus “according to so many people,” she says, in part ...

You probably ask many of the people you interact with every day the same question: “How are you?” Yet this phrase, once a genuine inquiry, has morphed into little more than a reflexive greeting we say ...

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