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Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair turns her attention to the growing trend of late-life divorces in her new book.
A divorce left Patti Schmidt a single mom who needed a job. She wanted to cook, but the only opening she found was for a dessert chef -- her biggest weakness. She worked like a mad scientist until she baked a reputation as the Dessert Lady.
Thanksgiving recently passed and Christmas is rapidly approaching. Special holidays like those call for special celebrations with family and friends. Most my age (well into seniorhood), can recall holidays, especially Christmas and Thanksgiving when there was a gathering of family to celebrate the occasion. That was then; too often that doesn't happen in today's world. In my day, I never had...
Should high school seniors put off college for a year to go travel the world? That's what one woman, who has spent 24 years traveling the globe, thinks, and she's hoping to start a national movement.
Another celebrity couple bites the dust -- so how can you make your marriage work when so many hit the skids?
Tracy Stone was at rock bottom. She was in the midst of a devastating divorce and struggling to find her way as a single mom. But then she felt herself drawn to the war-torn country of Rwanda and before she knew it, her life had changed forever.
Parents need agreement to protect kids in divorce People ending their marriage through divorce still have a responsibility to be good parents. These are key issues to discuss in the process of protecting your kids from experiencing more emotional pain. Map out your thoughts, and then work together with the other parent of your children to create a reasonable way to be effective as parents,...
The following is a true story. About three decades ago, I separated from my then wife. While I suspect we both knew things weren't going well for us, I was the one to suggest the separation - the first step towards a divorce. After a month or so, I had a call from my wife suggesting we try to work things out. That seemed reasonable to me since I wasn't proud of the fact that my marriage seemed...
For years, Sharyn Wolf felt trapped. She had a secret that could destroy her career. Sharyn was one of the nation's most recognized and celebrated marriage counselors -- and her own marriage was failing.
Journalist Abigail Trafford is focused on what she believes are the biggest, most important stories of this era -- the age wave and the aging of America.