Choosing to Have Patience

What Goes on in Your Brain and How to Influence It My brother Mark needed to tie down the tarp on a wood cabinet in the back of a pickup. He struggled with this because a stroke left his right side paralyzed. “Let me help,” I said. Fiercely independent, Mark glared at...

Agreeable Versus Disagreeable Brains

What’s Going on in Others’ Brains — and What You Can Do about It When was the last time you needed to have a tough talk with someone? A friend told me it was Saturday night in the grocery store checkout line. The woman behind her was with a tween-age...