So what's up with the crayons? Everywhere you go lately — the bookstore, Starbucks — even here at NPR — I see grown men and women sitting around coloring. Every time, this takes me back to rainy ...

Gabe Coeli of Portland, Ore., is devotee of zen meditation. But in the middle of a busy work day, he often takes a shortcut to mindfulness and stress relief by doing a little coloring. His assistant ...

Sky blue, yellow-green, magenta and violet, plus basic colors — red, blue, green, orange, brown, black, white — they’re all in a big box of Crayola Watercolor Colored Pencils. The 240-pencil Classpack ...