A wise gardener once said, “Beginners worry about making plants grow. Experienced gardeners know the real trick is keeping them under control.” While gardeners love to commiserate about how many ...

Dear Eric: My spouse recently died, leaving me with a substantial financial estate. Now I have to decide what to do with it. We had no children (we were a male couple). My spouse had three younger ...

Allison Daminger was in graduate school when she learned that men and women use their time differently: On average, men spend more time on paid work, and women spend more time on unpaid work. “I ...

Dividing herbaceous perennials in the fall is an easy way to create new plants for your garden. A herbaceous perennial overwinters as a fleshy underground mass that can be cut into smaller pieces to ...

Over the last few years and through this year's contentious campaign season, which was rooted in America's deep divisions, there has been a coarsening in the way people talk to each other. We wanted ...

Dear Eric: My wife and I will soon receive a small inheritance from the death of one of my relatives. Since we do not need most of this money, we have decided to distribute it among our children and ...

My husband and I are in our early 50s. We own several small businesses and are trying to determine how to set up a trust that will be equitable for our three adult children. Oldest son, 33: He is an ...

I was recently interviewed (by Rachel Drummond for Counseling Schools) about the growing political divide in the US and what the lessons are for leaders: How do group dynamics influence how people ...

To borrow from Bobby Jones, there are two types of golf: golf for the very rich and golf for the rest of us. And they are not at all the same. Lately, they seem to be diverging even further. A ...