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 ...

When she catches those words rolling out of her mouth—which still happens occasionally—she corrects herself and tells the ...

During my daily walks, I run into a handful of people who almost always offer a cheerful “Good morning” followed by an equally cheerful “How are you?” One or the other of us will initiate the little ...

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 ...