Realizing that life is fragile we feel the urgent need to document our legacies to help shape this unfolding new world.
Melissa Hapke | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living
While growing up, I couldn't appreciate the sacrifices my mother made for me, or for us. I do now though.
Chris Kyle | Posted 06.10.2009 | Entertainment
My mom is an unusual sports fan. She doesn't use the word hate and she's never booed a single team or person in her life.
Katie Saddlemire | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living
On Friday, I asked for you to share your Mother's Day Stories, and share you did! While I would have liked to publish them all, here are some that st...
Wendy Braitman | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living
With Mother's Day hours away, I would like to honor my beloved mother, by using the word mother in a sentence as often as possible.
Ray Chambers | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living
Amidst the joy that we will share with our loved ones on Mother's Day sits the reality that too many women and children in certain parts of our planet face the cruel, unrelenting challenges posed by malaria.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
Escorts stand shoulder to shoulder, bound to strangers in an effort to offer a kind word to clients who are exercising their right to make a compassionate, informed, responsible decision, a motherly choice.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living
She had succeeded in making everyone who knew her feel that they mattered. What an achievement for one lifetime.
Jodie Evans | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Mother's Day isn't really about Hallmark and Teleflora, but was a call for women to gather in "the great and general interests of peace."
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living
This year, with the difficult economy posing challenges for all families, our mothers need more than just attention on Mother's Day. They need a legislative agenda that enables them to thrive.
Jane Shure | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living
At first she was simply my friend's mom, but as I grew up, with no mother to teach me, Sibby stepped in.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living
Motherhood is the only role I've ever had where I simultaneously feel I am doing pretty well at it and am sure that I know nothing. You'd think that a...
Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living
How about this Mother's Day we all give ourselves a break, pick up Ayelet Waldman's latest book, Bad Mother, put our feet up, eat some chocolate, and pat ourselves on the back.
Jilly Gagnon | Posted 06.03.2009 | Comedy
If you answered mostly d's: Give yourself a treat this mother's day and rebury her body in a location that's not tied to you.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.24.2009 | Living
We are not our children's friends. We are their parents. While it's wonderful to be popular with our kids, even that popularity must be experienced within the overall framework of parental authority.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living
For the first time, a new generation of daughters may have more in common with the world of their fathers than they do with the world of their mothers.
AP | CAROLINA ESCALERA | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
SAO PAULO — Brazilian authorities say six female inmates escaped with their babies from a prison unit where they were allowed to stay with their...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.11.2009 | Living
Michelle is an object lesson in the power of mothers, a reminder that their work is empowering, comforting, instructive and joyous. And more than any time in recent memory, we need it.
Doree Shafrir | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media
I've decided that moms are able to pack so much into one email because they sit down at the computer as though they were making a phone call -- but end up just kind of talking to themselves.
Romi Lassally | Posted 04.26.2009 | Entertainment
ABC shouldn't abandon the principle that made their new sitcom In the Motherhood valuable in the first place -- listening to real stories from real mothers.
Jill Brooke | Posted 04.18.2009 | Living
Only 12 and 13, I think to myself. Losing a parent makes you an adult overnight, someone who realizes how fleeting and random life can be.
Anne Dunev | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living
Getting less than seven hours of sleep each night can make you three times more likely to catch a cold. And if you sleep restlessly, that makes you five times more susceptible.
Jane Ganahl | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living
I'm 56 and starting to look seriously at AARP literature when it arrives in the mail. But I want a child - a grandchild - and I want my daughter to have it for me.
Dr. Susan M. Guthrie | Posted 04.09.2009 | Living
There is something pretty devastating about losing your job - after all, your job is not only how you survive financially, it's where you get much of your sense of worth.
Astri von Arbin Ahlander | Posted 03.29.2009 | Living
The stigma against mothers that prevails throughout the working world seems exceptionally strong in the art world, which is notoriously difficult to penetrate to begin with.
Rachael Freed | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living