Lifestyle

In the game of Scrabble, there’s a very handy rule that allows you to exchange some (or even all) of your letter tiles for brand new ones. In my experience, this rule is chronically underemployed. People often forget about it altogether – until they find themselves looking at the board and their available letters, and discovering that about all they can spell is plfhxt.

This being the Take Charge issue and all, it's tempting to claim that when we relaunched Experience Life magazine a little over a year ago, we knew exactly what we were doing – that we planned it out and made it happen just so.

When I was a kid, my mom referred to me affectionately as her "worry wart." This was because, from a very early age, I fretted and worried myself silly over just about everything, from whether my toddler tights were on straight, to whether or not other kids would like me, to whether I would grow up to be the sort of adult I imagined I was supposed to be.

EFT — or Emotional Freedom Technique — is a technique for getting over cravings, phobias, pain, and more.

If you’ve been exhausted and bouncing a lot of energetic checks lately, the following tips may help you rebalance your bottom line.

So I'm watching a rerun of the X-Files the other night (doesn't Scully look hilarious in those early episodes) when the dreaded Arby's commercial comes on.

It starts when some nice clerk ma'ams you at the supermarket. Then you notice waitresses aren't asking to see your ID quite so often. Next thing you know, you're saying things like, "When I was younger," and it no longer sounds even a little bit silly.

I confess, when I first began editing Experience Life, I thought the magazine's name was a little odd. Perplexing, actually.