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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

My path to less consumption took an odd detour last month: to a sample sale across state lines.... more

Toni Easter, 58, has faced the hopelessness familiar to any liberal voter living in a state dominated by conservative lawmakers.... more

I was recently trapped in a perplexing and potentially compromising situation that made me reconsider the impact of middle-aged brain fog.... more

Marsha Levison, now 70, once experienced a dental visit so terrible that it kept her from seeing a dentist for the next 15 years.... more

Sam Neudecker slid the dollar bills into his daughter’s Barbie-pink cash register. His neighbors looked over dozens of glass vases set on a folding table in their front yard on the tree-lined suburban... more

Sobia Shahab, of Ballwin, Missouri, lost her husband of nearly 24 years unexpectedly this summer when he suffered organ failure after a sudden illness.... more

The moment Diane Smith saw a post about Mrs. Roper’s Romps -- parties inspired by a feisty character from a throwback sitcom -- she wanted to plan one.... more

Daniel Bogard knew he wanted to become a rabbi after he graduated with a religious studies degree from Macalester College in Minnesota.... more

I was driving to the gym when a message from my youngest brother popped up in our siblings group chat.... more

President Donald Trump supporters who genuinely believed he would release all the government files about child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and who keep pushing for answers, deserve bipartisan supp... more

During one of the scariest times of my life, when my husband was hospitalized with COVID early in the pandemic, I sat on a concrete bench outside the hospital -- watching him through a wall of windows... more

At 20, Camden Cimorelli finally found a job he enjoyed: laying specialty flooring.... more

Growing up, I heard my father describe America as “the greatest country in the world,” and it made perfect sense, given his core beliefs and life choices.... more

Six years ago, doctors removed an aggressive, cancerous tumor the size of a Twinkie from the right side of Matt Mertens’ brain.... more

Previous generations of newly minted graduates have faced rough job markets. But few have done so while also reeling from the widespread loss of positions they had already been promised.... more

The surest signs of marital stability in my childhood home were my mother’s cooking and my father’s appetite.... more

When our children were young, many of our vacations involved piling into our Prius and driving 750 miles to visit my family in Texas. Our fancier trips took us to theme parks or beaches in Florida or ... more

Ashley Sykes, 26, told her mom she was going upstairs to lie down.... more

When we dropped off our daughter at the airport in January for her semester abroad in Paris, I took a picture as she walked through the TSA security line, and my heart felt caught in my throat.... more

All of Lee Hawkins’ dreams were coming true when the nightmares started.... more