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Ask Dr. Steve: It’s getting dark at 7 p.m. Don’t wait for winter to hit

You noticed it this week. You stepped outside after dinner and it was already dusk. The light's going. And somewhere under the ordinary annoyance about the clocks, a heavier thought surfaced, the one you've had every October for years: here it comes. The tiredness. The pull toward the couch. ...

Ask Dr. Steve: The house is too quiet: Surviving the empty nest

You drove home from the dorm a month ago. You held it together in the parking lot, mostly. Now it's a Tuesday night and the house is quiet in a way it hasn't been in eighteen years. No thump of a backpack in the hall. No one asking what's for dinner. You catch yourself standing in the doorway ...