She had forgotten a lot. Dementia had reared its ugly head. Perhaps it was the beginning of Alzheimers. Perhaps mom was just wearing out.

What would you do if called upon to intervene in a public situation These readers responded to share their experiences

An old woman was in Trader Joes, on her phone, asking for help and clearly not getting it from the person on the other end of the line. Five people strolled by.

On my fourteenth birthday, I woke up to find my parents gone an d a note on the kitchen table that said: "At the hospital."

This weekend I went to the 'pre-game' festivities for my husbands 55th high school reunion.

When our oldest was in middle school, I asked why he and his brother never did anything bad.

I am busy making Easter baskets: one for my 39-year-old son and one for my husband. My son’s treats come from Trader Joe’s because he...

My parents made a pact to stand on every continent int he world. Then my dad died.

i treasure this photo of my dad, my two brothers and me when we lived in Alaska. The years was probably 1955.

The other day I came home to find the. men I hired to build my patio sitting in the backyard looking at a stump. This was not a normal stump. This was giant, Paul Bunyan, Big John kind of stump.

Loved Top Gun. Loved Kelly McGillis's seamed stockings and Tom Cruise's derring-do. But the Navy wasn't on my radar until I received an invitation from the U.S. Navy's Leaders to Sea program to spend two days on the USS Nimitz.