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When a friend told me that she’d recently had dinner with her former husband, my ears perked up, especially since I knew that her current husband, Mike, has been traveling a lot. “Dinner? Just th...

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…even when he really, really doesn’t want to Stanford University professor John Perry, PhD, has risen to the top of the academic world and built a reputation for being highly productive. He has w...

Surely you know that you’re good at something—whether your talent runs to cooking, crocheting, leading a corporation or counseling confused loved ones. But maybe you dream of being really good…e...