We’ve all met someone who turns every conversation into a lesson — the friend who can’t help but explain the “right” way to do something or the movie that seems more interested in teaching than ...

A word of the month is a flexible approach to resolutions that offers you a different guiding light for each month — a touchstone to return to when the hustle of life threatens to derail your focus ...

THE perfect word — when to say it, how to say it, when not to say it. ... I pondered this problem as I walked in the pleasant rain along the top of Catoctin Mountain, from whence one may look down ...

Once, that blinking line meant thinking. It was a pause – the space between a thought and the words that might make sense of it. Writers would sit for minutes, even hours, staring at a blank page, ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary set out recently to document some of these words on Twitter, and was flooded with responses from people offering... Lost in translation: 4 perfect words that have no ...