I've spent a lot of time eating in restaurants since 1996.That means I have also spent a lot of time having dinner table conversations. I have met new people, gotten to know others better, argued ...

Lyon is not just teaching the class on defusing hostile dinner table conversations, he practices what he preaches, too. He uses these techniques “all the time” at family gatherings, he said.

Additionally, table talk has the power to turn formality into something comfortable. Dinner table conversations in college can cover everything from March Madness to roommate drama to future ...

One on one, I still understood my family, but at the dinner table, conversation was incomprehensible. I’d feel profoundly alone, encased in an invisible bubble.

Which topic is the bigger dinner-table conversation killer: our nation’s fractious presidential election, or your own family’s finances? Both subjects make for uncomfortable conversations, a ...

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