This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. I’ve made the promise to myself so many times: I will keep a diary. I like the idea that one day, decades into the future, I can turn over the ...

Silver Spring, Md. — Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” is blaring on everyone's car radio. It’s 40-some degrees, but water balloons are being tossed, and a lifeguard is blowing her whistle at guests.

In France, Duke student Isabella Helton is learning how to slow down This is the latest in a series of diary entries by Isabella Helton, one of a group of Duke students who will write about their ...