While today many people commonly accept anxiety and depression as legitimate states of being, the condition of awkwardness is a slipperier thing to define. An acute case of it is never diagnosed for ...

What’s so great about being awkward? On this episode of “Salon Mix,” we talk with Dr. Ty Tashiro about why we should actually embrace our quirks and the things we think are weird about ourselves.

Thanksgiving is the Super Bowl of awkwardness. You love these people (mostly), but the scripts are fuzzy. Do we hug? Do we talk politics? What do I say when someone hits me with the third “so, how’s ...