Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy

How should parents hand over responsibility for a pet to a child? They shouldn't. "The idea of getting a pet just to teach responsibility is archaic," said Marc Morrone, Martha...

It's never just about the stuff. The clutter in our lives, whether cloistered in closets or clogging our calendars, is masking other issues, says Mary Carlomagno in her book "Live...

For Val Walker, practical wisdom was born in a moment of fire and fury. During a bleak time post-divorce, she snapped when she accidentally burned herself, dropped a frying pan...

There is not much time left. You may be 50, or 64 or 32 when it hits you in the gut that life is finite and if you're going to...

There is not much time left. You may be 50, or 64 or 32 when it hits you in the gut that life is finite and if you're going to...

In an age of Facebooking, tweeting and e-mailing, does it matter that we are less able to write by hand? Do schools teach penmanship anymore? Should they? The national hand-wringing...

Trends are not just for the runway. Social habits go in and out of fashion, too. Book clubs, those social circles where people meet over a glass of wine to...

During the last 10 years, the social stigma surrounding single motherhood has dissipated. The challenges have not. Sandy Chalkoun knows the struggle: After her husband left when their son was...

For newly minted college graduates who've been catapulted from campus into the toughest job market in years, there is no magic bullet. "That means they have to use a lot...