Introductions—we all have to make them. The worst introductions are bumbling at best, while the best ones are the beginnings of beautiful friendships. We’re aiming for the latter. Proper introduction ...

It is a good thing when your dental practice is growing and you are too busy to do it all yourself. You have determined -- after the professional and proper analysis of new patients, active patients, ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What, precisely, is a “letter of introduction”? Characters in novels from the 19th and early 20th centuries use them whenever they come to a town unfamiliar to them, but I have ...

Why a blog on the English language for Psychology Today? What do language and grammar have to do with psychology? Plenty, as I hope this blog will make clear. In my recent book The Lexicographer’s ...

Ethan Hawke’s documentary, “Seymour: An Introduction,” is by far the best film he has made. It would pair up nicely in a twin bill about music education with Damien Chazelle’s “Whiplash” (2014).

Brazil blew its chance to win a sixth World Cup while spending $11.5 billion for 12 oversized stadiums. But in the process the country gained something important: a proper introduction to the rest of ...