She texted me on my birthday last year. Just the standard message—”Happy birthday! Hope you’re doing well!—with a balloon emoji that felt like it came from a stranger. I stared at it for a while. This ...

Growing up, all of your family’s traditions were perfectly normal. Nobody would question them, and you might have assumed that every family followed the exact same rituals. But there comes a time in ...

It’s easy to assume that everyone had the exact same upbringing as you until you visit a friend’s home or start hearing ...

"Since Diesal was an 8-month-old, he has always been the sweetest and most-affectionate Velcro puppy," his owner told Newsweek.

As long as we live in a society, we need to make compromises. Biting your tongue during an intense family dinner, telling your boss "Of course" when you're thinking "definitely not"—we all play along ...

The man Stephen Colbert calls "the patron saint of ex-talk show hosts" has a few things to say about the late night crisis, ...

It takes one cross-country plane, a train, a ferry, then another hour or so by car to reach the writer I had read plenty ...

Known for one key asset, the “million-dollar suburb” in this week’s Life in the ’burbs series also embraces dogs and birds. Shame about the horses.

So when Gov. Jerry Brown had started letting lifers out before leaving office, my mother believed she had a real chance to ...

Some people now have an A.I. bestie. Some have a husband. Some have three. Adrianne Brookins is, by her own account, an “old ...

Meeting the adult kangaroos at Kangaroo Ranch is a different kind of thrill than holding the babies. These are fully mobile, curious animals that hop directly toward visitors, sniff around for snacks, ...

Sometimes, a lifelong friendship is born from the most unlikely of circumstances. In my case, it was the first time I saw Jan in a pair of ski pants in the newsroom of a Perth radio station. It was ...