A few kind words can change someone’s outlook, and National Compliment Day celebrates those brief exchanges that stick longer ...

It can compliment, or dismiss. It sometimes conveys strong emotions, or no emotion at all. And that's "nice" -- a tidy, sturdy word that's remarkably adaptable. Hundreds of years ago, it meant someone ...

As my book debuted and the compliments began rolling in, my inner critic pulled up a chair and said, "Let’s not get carried away.” Even as it hit #1 as a New Release on Amazon, my brain managed to ...