This year will be better than last year, won’t it? Because every year gets better than the one before, particularly when you’re the kind of person who can make resolutions and stick to them. That’s me: resolved to make a resolution and stick with it. WHAT’S MY secret? I’ve learned to make resolutions that make [...]

Holiday stress is a popular notion, bigger than Santa almost. In recent years, some shrinks began noticing a spike in requests from patients for refills for anti-anxiety medications around the holidays. And ever since, the media have been obsessed with the paradoxical notion of people being unhappy at the supposedly most joyous time of year. [...]