I am writing this as a follow-up to my last post, “What Is Your COVID-19 Story?” At the end of that post, as with many of my posts, I advocated a more mindful approach to the pandemic, culminating in ...

Fancy words go in and out of fashion, positing an existential temptation to overuse. The late 1990s gave us “literally.” People literally used “literally” to emphasize almost any point — even one that ...

Existential dread can manifest in many forms. This kind of intense trauma and stress generally comes from a major existential crisis. Existential dread can be scary, because it may feel like life ...

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. –Jean Paul Sartre Source: Eetum / Istock Søren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher who is considered to be the father of existentialism. He was ...