Friendship should be one of the high points of existence, and yet it’s also the most routinely disappointing reality. Too often, you’re at dinner at someone’s house: there’s an impr-essive spread and the hosts have evidently gone to a Continue Reading

In many challenges personal and professional we are held back by the crippling thought that people like us could not possibly triumph given what we know of ourselves: how reliably stupid, anxious, gauche, crude, vulgar and dull we really Continue Reading

It seems strange to make a case for hugging. After all, hugging has become deeply fashionable; it’s viewed as an expansive alternative to the handshake, and is intended to suggest a flatteringly warm-blooded informality. Like the peck on both Continue Reading