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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that...

She had had more than her share of bad luck. The end of a 30-year marriage that had her feeling like she'd wasted her whole adult life....

( ahem) I have an announcement to make: I can now squat down and stand back up without touching anything or using my arms. You maybe...

I recognize that it would be totally against brand for me to point out something good and positive that came out of a bad situation. But...

First, a disclaimer: I don't watch reality TV. At all. Not competition shows, not singing shows, not Real Housewives, not Big Brother. I...

I was probably in my 40s when I learned that some people aren't "beach people." I had no idea that there are people who don't like the...

When I gave birth to my son, his Aunt Ellen called the hospital to congratulate us. I barely knew Chip's family. I'd met his (elderly)...

She'd figured out the key to a successful reunion experience at the last one: It didn't matter how thin she was, how good her hair, how...

When I was 14, I had a best friend, who I'll call Lily. Lily had moved into the neighborhood partway into 9th grade, and I considered...

People love to say that they need to live where there are four seasons. We assume they mean a differentiation in weather throughout the...

I'm a southern girl.

I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.