Young people today have a habit of describing themselves as a “hot mess.” Despite its Millennial-sounding modifier—not just a mess, but a hot one—the term is not new; examples of it go back to the ...

When life gets messy, it's natural for us to get stressed. Or angry. Or bitter. Especially when life takes a turn we didn't expect - a broken engagement, the loss of a spouse, the diagnosis of cancer, ...

Mess is a relative term. For my grandmother, a single spilled grain of salt on her dining table is a mess of eye-twitching proportions. For my brother, the mountains of dirty (and clean) clothes ...