The North Liberty meme taps into universal themes of teenage rebellion and parental discipline. Strict parents, sneaky kids, ...
Here is some history: My father was married to my stepmother for 30 years. She acted as a mother to me growing up and we had a reasonably good relationship. My father and stepmother built a ...
Thank you, my husband, who is just the joy of my life. Thank you for giving me peace because only with the peace that you’ve brought me have I been allowed to go to places that I never even knew I ...
I was so excited that my fourth-grade teacher let me count down the days until my mom's first round of labor on the classroom whiteboard. By then, my parents had been divorced for a few years.
My sister and I rested on a neighbor’s stoop across the thin street, the same neighbor who had contacted me in January when she saw the firemen hauling my mother into an ambulance. She poured us ...
Her son, a postgraduate student in Hong Kong, was particularly proud. "He told me, 'Mom, you're amazing'," said Sun with a smile. Even her 75-year-old mother-in-law, who Sun said in jest is in better ...
An alcoholic, my mother was highly abusive, both psychologically and physically. As adults, despite repeated requests from me and my brothers ... that I needed to actually forgive her in my ...
Parents being proud of you is the biggest flex. But what is the ultimate flex? Having your kids be proud of you. Halle Bailey had one such moment recently when her one-year-old son, Halo, recognized ...
An alcoholic, my mother was highly abusive, both psychologically and physically. As adults, despite repeated requests from me and my brothers ... that I needed to actually forgive her in my ...
Two years ago, Dontae Smith went on a random shooting spree -- killing Chayne Lewis Lee. On Friday, Smith was sentenced to at least 28 years in prison. Jeff Flake and Mark Cuban mix business and ...
If he hasn’t spoken to her yet, why hasn’t he? Don’t get me wrong: Your mother-in-law sounds like a challenging figure, and her plans for the coming months seem daunting. Still, it is not ...