Sometime in my early 20s I heard the expression, “you should live every day as if it’s your last”, and took it to heart. My ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Annie Lu, a 32-year-old former product marketing manager at Atlassian based in Bellevue, Washington. It's been edited for length and clarity. When ...

The first notes… a guitar strum… a piano key… light vocals. Music is important to the American culture. You’ll see every teen walking around with headphones in their ears, the cords dangling from ...

Forget virginity. Recently, I lost my immortality. Life is now too short to go into the details. All you need to know is that when my travel plans to Machu Picchu fell through, I had a revelation: I ...

DEAR ANNIE: I have two grown children. My daughter has a boyfriend, and I just don’t get along with him. He’s a military veteran, and he served during the Iraq conflict and was honorably discharged.

Tall, grande, venti. What happened to small, medium, large? Of course I know grande means large, but at Starbucks, there is a larger large: venti. And in the United States, tall is considered, well, ...

The name of a contributor to the Life Is Short column in the March 18 Style section was rendered incorrectly. The writer was Emily Arnoult Marsh. (Published 3/20/01) There are terms for those who have ...