Mother's Day is quickly approaching! This year, it falls on Sunday, May 13, so you have a couple of weeks to come up with the perfect token of appreci...

For Mother's Day, my wish is to give my children the promise, at least, that I will do whatever I can to clean up the mess my generation has been partly responsible for making.

This year the very best gift anyone can give Mom isn't something bought at the mall or gift-wrapped. The very best gift of all is right under your very roof. Make Mom dinner.

Everyone who has infant twins experiences their fair share of difficulties, but I can't help but wonder what was lost during that vital first month when the three of us lived apart.

Let's face it, Mother's are pretty simple creatures and don't require much on our special day. To celebrate Mother's Day, consider giving your mom a new book, a nice cup of tea and some spaciousness to become lost in a great story.

If we've had or continue to have an insecure relationship with our moms, this would be a great time to begin the process of inner reflection to move toward security now.

Motherhood is universal, though sadly a healthy survival rate is not. Progress is being made to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of mothers and babies, yet too many families are deprived of their moms.

Unlike so many problems in developing countries, where one can only curse the darkness, the Mothers Day Every Day campaign has demonstrated on maternal mortality we can and are lighting candles.

I'm trying to write a Mother's Day column and can't because I'm a mother. Irony at its best? Perhaps. But that's the thing about kids - they're very high-maintenance.