ROANOKE, Va. – Have you ever noticed the peaceful calm and quiet of a freshly-fallen snow? It turns out that it isn’t your mind playing tricks on you. Snowflakes come in many different shapes and ...

This is an excerpt from "The Bucket List: Places to Find Peace and Quiet." For most people, finding those necessary moments of quiet in an increasingly busy world is a struggle. The unwelcome ...

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Silence isn’t always peaceful. For millions, it screams. That faint ringing, buzzing, or humming in the ears known as tinnitus becomes an invisible prison of sound. It creeps in when the world goes ...

Most songwriters peak. Few fans think Bob Dylan improved after “Blood on the Tracks.” Nobody champions Bruce Springsteen’s “Wrecking Ball” over “Born to Run.” But subtract the nostalgia you feel for ...

I’ve spent the past week in one of the least quiet places on Earth: a windowless room in a hospital’s intensive care unit. Among many noises, I’ve been listening to droning machines, incessant beeping ...