Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts c...

I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my h...

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '...

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicab...

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health car...

I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman...

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people...

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on c...

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and we...

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother w...

I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know...

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the ag...