The other week my friend called me distressed. A week earlier she had gone through a second round of layoffs in her company where she had to deliver the bad news to employees on her team. And now she was being demoted, which there was no sound reasoning for the decision. Her boss wanted to talk about the change in her role. When she told him that she was still processing her emotions and not ready to talk about it, he replied that he could handle her raw feelings. So she shar

Almost every room in our house has lights on a dimmer switch. When we first moved in, this feature allowed us to set the brightness of...