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What’s your top priority in life: a great career or an enduring, loving relationship? More importantly, which one of these goals do you work hardest to achieve in your day-to-day thoughts and actions?

If you’re struggling to come up with a creative solution to a problem maybe you need to take off your thinking cap and put on your beer goggles—or so suggests a recent study (via Time.com) on the effect imbibing alcohol has on an individual’s ability to think creatively.

What makes a good mother? Probably the very qualities that also make a good person: compassion, kindness, intelligence, loyalty and strength — a sense of humour surely helps, too.

There’s nothing like going out to dinner with a friend—and her cell phone, which often sits perched just to the left of her plate. Ah, the deeply private conversations that get interrupted by vibration mode.

You’re lying in bed — too hot to sleep, too hot for blankets, so hot even the top sheet on your bed feels like a flannel blanket against your boiling skin. Ah, the sorrows of a summer heat wave and its far-too familiar nocturnal ritual of discomfort and bouts of irrational rage.