In “The House of My Mother,” Shari finally takes back her story, and in these pages we discover Shari was only trying to survive, to please her mother and to avoid her inextinguishable rage. Shari’s ...

In an exclusive excerpt from her new memoir, 'The House of My Mother,' Shari Franke details how she stood up to her mom, Ruby Franke, who pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated child abuse ...

When my mother moved out, we decided to sell my house and buy a new place with more land to build an ADU for my mother. To purchase the new house and build the ADU, my mother gave me $50,000 ...

My mother-in-law, “Tracy” and I have never gotten along. She is the sort of person who will be your best friend, so long as ...

I’ve come to see that these grim chats are a way for her to seize some control over a haunting process.

Peter D. Kramer is a 37-year staffer who writes long-form narratives on a variety of topics. His story looking back on the ...

I always knew my mother loved me. I didn’t realize the full practical cost of her love until becoming a mother myself.

Hargitay's touching HBO documentary sees the actor trying to understand her mother Jayne Mansfield, who died when Hargitay ...

What I learned when I helped my mother move: some personal insights Buying and selling a house or apartment can be extraordinarily stressful. Here are some things I learned that helped me make ...

My husband loves me and understands my frustration, but he would never turn his mom out on the street, which is something I love about him. However, I also need his mother out of my house immediately.

We are filming at the house in Great Barrington where [my mother] lived and died," Joe Symons said of the short film. "It will be a hard experience for me. But it will also be very healing. It will be ...

My mother is three years short of a century. She was born March 20, 1928, in San Antonio, Texas. As a child of the Great Depression, her girlhood was a procession of people and experiences mostly ...