A friend recently forwarded a funny little video of an interview with an elderly couple. It begins with the interviewer asking the woman how long they had been married. Sixty-five years, she replies. Wow, says the interviewer, that's amazing, did you ever think of divorcing him? No, never, she says, pausing to add the punchline, but I did often think of murdering him! I laughed out loud watching the video. Violent as it sounds, the sentiment is relatable in long term relation

Failure and I go back a long way. We first met when I was nineteen. And failure, I have learned, is a patient teacher. It returns at periodic intervals, like the proverbial bad penny, inviting us, challenging us to relate to it differently. This is what the Irish writer Samuel Beckett captured so perfectly when he wrote: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." I know this teacher intimately. What I could not have imagined when we first met wa

After my first viewing of Groundhog Day, I have of late had the desire to watch it again. That opportunity came on my recent flight back from India, where it appeared among the options for the long journey home. Fifteen years later, I returned to it—familiar with the storyline, of course—but discovering far more meaning than before. For those who may not know or remember, Groundhog Day tells the story of a man who wakes up to the same set of events every single day. The day r