Joining a fraternity or sorority can be a rewarding experience for college students, helping them to develop lifelong friendships, leadership skills, career connections, and a pathway to maturation ...

The other day I ran into the mother of my middle son’s former girlfriend. Our kids, who started dating in high school, broke up at the beginning of their sophomore year in college, after dating for ...

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The night I learned I was pregnant for the first time, I didn’t sleep at all. My husband sat there with a shocked look on his face, holding the pregnancy test. We talked for a while, and then we went ...

Weeks before Christmas, my family starts bingeing Hallmark movies and any other holiday movie we can find. Last year, we added Your Christmas or Mine and a Boy Called Christmas to our must-watch list ...

Natalie is a freshman at the University of Maine with a major in English.

My oldest will be twenty this year. After graduating high school, he was so excited to work as a plumber full-time: he craved doing something with his hands and loved the freedom of not having to sit ...

As a former college president, I think the college interview is important part of the college admissions and application process and, if I had some kind of mythical authority, I would require all ...

Remember when you had your first baby? And remember how, to help you prepare for this life-changing experience, friends and family showered you with gifts? From the adorable to the practical, you got ...

Two months after I walked down the aisle with my husband, we started trying to have a child. “I’m not ready to have kids yet,” he said. “I read it takes at least 6-months of trying. By the time we ...

I have three sons and they are all convinced I don’t know their names. Sure I was there when those names were selected, truth be told I picked each of their names, but now these many years later I can ...

If your news feed is anything like mine, you’ve probably seen a lot of memes lately about the “Tide Pod Challenge.” They all show a variety of nostalgic pictures from the ‘80s or ‘90s of kids doing ...