I have a friend who is very zen, almost annoyingly so. One time I asked him to describe what his mind is like at rest, and he likened it to waves of thought gently lapping at a beach. My mind feels ...

I’m standing in a wooded area of Seattle’s Discovery Park. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, my eyes are closed. I’m with Michael Stein-Ross, a certified forest therapy guide, who is leading me ...

If anyone asks for a good camping spot in Indiana, I recommend a trail in the southern tip of Hoosier National Forest. The Forest covers 203,000 acres of land, much of it untouched by man, and ...

Vermont is home to only one national park, the 550-acre Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, established in 1992 to “tell the story of conservation history and the evolving nature of ...

For many of us, the 2016 presidential race has been raising stress levels. I have read multiple reports of folks going to the doctor’s office with stress-related physical complaints. We may feel ...