When it comes to caring for aging parents, we often think about big decisions like healthcare arrangements, living situations, or financial planning. Yet research consistently shows that it's often ...

When everyday kindness feels like winning the emotional lottery, it's not because you're overly sensitive. It's because ...

Back in high school, I had my eyes closed when we took the graduation picture with the whole class and teachers, and I looked awful. My boyfriend at that time, though, zoomed in on my face and took a ...

Big romantic gestures often steal the spotlight, it's the small, everyday acts that genuinely enrich relationships. Grand declarations might make for captivating stories, but it's the quiet, ...

It's always refreshing to hear a man's point of view on small gestures done by women that they really appreciate. The hundreds of comments in this thread discussing these small acts of kindness really ...

Brenda shares a reflection of Pope Francis's leadership based on four encounters she had with him as a young adult leader, educator, and minister. Francis models kenotic leadership—emptying oneself to ...

From helping seniors with the gift of song to providing bottles of clean water to the military, local residents know that small gestures can often have the biggest impact on others. Watching a handful ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. Building a man’s self-confidence doesn’t always require ...

This issue of borderlands takes its title, ‘Politics of Transgression and Small Gestures’, from Leela Gandhi’s Affective Communities. Although focused on very different geopolitical scenes from those ...