A mother watches her son try on his first suit for prom, reflecting on childhood, regret, and the fleeting moments that ...

A late-night “hey” from a college son reveals the quiet shift in parenting teens - less fixing, more listening.

The celebration had created a contract: this is where you wanted to be, this is where you are, the story is finished. The loneliness felt like a violation of that contract rather than what it was, the ...

A while back, I wrote about the trials and tribulations of being the mother of four boys and how I heard that there was a special place in heaven for such mothers. At that particular time in my life, ...

On the heels of returning to Minneapolis to be closer to my adult children after several years caring for my mom in Florida, my 27-year-old son said, “We should live together again.” I assumed he was ...

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I arrived at my house from the funeral home and went straight to bed. I’d been awake for nearly 36 hours, the final hours of my mom’s life. While saying my last goodbye, I was told by the hospital ...

On your 18th birthday, I wrote you a love letter that contained all the most important life lessons I knew at the time. Five years later, we have both grown and learned, sometimes the hard way. As you ...

When teens and young adults picture social settings, most of them envision physical spaces with their peers, online communication, or possibly family gatherings. Most don’t think about the social ...

For the last 20 years, every mid-November, is the time when I begin to think about what Christmas card I’m going to send out. Until this year. This year I questioned whether it made sense. Both my ...