Browsing: First Person
A mother recounts her high-risk pregnancy, where she went into labor with triplets after only 24 weeks. Follow along with her story.
“I didn’t plan on having four girls — I daydreamed it would be all boys.” But his daughters taught him more about perspective than he ever expected.
We just arrived home from my daughter’s first college interview. To say I wasn’t sure this moment would ever come…
My daughter was barely 4 when she decided she wanted to be a dancer. When I say she decided, I…
Em and I have been spending a lot more time together lately. Gone are the petty arguments, sneering tone, defensiveness…
Who takes an almost-2-year-old toddler, an 85-pound golden retriever, and two indoor cats on a three-week vacation odyssey? Yep, we…
Grandparents today are coaching, teaching, helping with homework, providing daily child care, or even becoming the primary caregiver while continuing…
Excitement filled the day of my birth. I was the first grandchild on my father’s side and the first granddaughter…
I have come to realize that there are individuals in this world who have a natural grace around people with…
Just before my older daughter, Jaye, left for college, we established an accidental, unspoken ritual: falling asleep together while watching…