My father was recently admitted to the hospital, one of his many visits in recent years to address his failing health. This time it was pneumonia, an infection he sustained after spending hours in the same hospital to get stitches when he fell off his bed and cut his scalp....

Several years ago, when my children were young, we would often visit my parents in Florida in February, eagerly looking forward to shedding our parkas for shorts and t-shirts, and spending some quality time with the folks. But as soon as my kids walked in, throwing their shoes all over...

I'm staring at a glass, turned upside down and wedged between the cushions of the only chair in our family room that's in decent condition, untarnished from the cat's perpetual clawing. Thankfully, the glass is empty. It's been left there by my daughter, who has returned home from college. The...

Each June, about 250,000 couples walk down the aisle. While the bride and groom are floating on cloud nine, the mother-of-the-bride may be silently seething. What brides envisioned as a fairy tale wedding can instead become a nightmare fraught with conflict, as mothers express their disapproval of their daughter's future...