Category Archives: Family & Friends

This past summer my daughter, a rising high school senior, and I embarked on a college tour. I was looking forward to a road trip with my youngest chi... Read More

When my own daughter adopted kids, it took a while to acclimate to grandparenting A few years ago I couldn’t have written honestly on grandparentin... Read More

"My Dad was a mechanic- we lived in Florida. [With a] hurricane coming, I was a kid and he was fixing ice cream truck. He took all the kids from our b... Read More

One of the more difficult emotional pains difficult to deal with is rejection from one’s mother. As much as we may all want to cling to the belief t... Read More

It's Mother's Day! If you're like us, you have that in-brain home movie running, flipping through all of the advice/sayings your mother said, perhaps ... Read More

I love to be honored on Mother’s Day by my husband, sons and grandkids, but it is a bittersweet holiday now that my mom is no longer alive. I miss h... Read More

It’s Graduation Season! Countless numbers of young people will make the milestone transition from high school to college and, after graduation to th... Read More

What is Friendship? When we think of the words friendship and friends, one wouldn’t think we would need to look the terms up because, well, we know... Read More

We all yearn for it. In today's times it's harder to make a real connection. I'm talking about the kind of connection where you don’t feel like you ... Read More

Parenting Your Parents The seismic shock of role reversal. It’s something most people face as their parents age. Parents who were once competent an... Read More

While you were probably excited when your older children first decided to leave the nest, when they move a distance away, it can be a little harder to... Read More

This is the fifth in a series of journal entries from contributing editor Adrienne Lawler, chronicling her breast cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy... Read More