Years ago, Barbara Finch wanted to channel her anxiety about an upcoming presidential election into something useful.... more

When a shooter burst into a study group and murdered two Brown University students and injured nine others, I was roasting a chicken, waiting for my son to return home from college.... more

For the better part of this year, my brain rejected the idea that my father could not get the care he needed at home.... more

I made an unusual fashion decision for Thanksgiving dinner.... more

Jacqueline Christy, directing her first feature and fresh out of film school, faced a tough call on set: Should she pack up her entire cast and crew from the alley in Tribeca, where they had a permit ... more

Amy Von Senden, 56, posted a sorrowful Reddit request recently about her dying mom.... more

Joseph Kosednar, a retired engineer, spent five years developing a speed-control pedal for a large jewelry-making machine.... more

We all know how wrong polls and pundits can be. They underestimated the popularity of the current president’s first successful run for office in 2016. Pundits were dead wrong about a “Red Wave” of GOP... more

Nearly a hundred dancing guests spilled out of a white tent and into the streets of a quiet Midwestern subdivision on a Wednesday night. I wondered how long before someone called the cops.... more

The day "Suja" saw her young son crying and banging on the car window as her husband drove him away, she knew she had to get away.... more

Charles Frey, 32, stood at the altar on his wedding day and spotted his third grade teacher sitting in the pews at the Catholic Student Center at Washington University.... more

When social media first began attracting young people more than two decades ago, parents worried about whether their children were chatting with nefarious strangers.... more

There are some things you may not want to know about your body.... more