It’s a wonder that anyone remembers anyone else’s name after just meeting. Most people are visually wired, which means we’re good with faces, but—was it Alyssa or Elizabeth? Hewitt or Wyatt? Elijah or ...

It’s hard to summon any words when someone dies—let alone the right ones. That’s why so many of us let the sympathy cards do the talking. “As a society, we’re uncomfortable with death and grief. We’re ...

Often when someone we love is grieving, we do not know what to say. “I’m sorry” does not seem to be enough but there are also no words that can provide a fix to what our loved one is going through.

Figuring out what to say when someone dies can, at times, feel impossible. You might be afraid of saying the wrong thing to someone who is grieving and worry that your well-meaning sympathy text could ...