Family Life

Raise your hand if you have a sister that gets on your nerves, oh all of you? Good. On a more serious note, sisters can be a total pain... but at the end of the day, you do love...

Thanksgiving is a time for sharing a meal with loved ones, catching up, and being thankful.  However, everything might not be all sunshine and rainbows when families come together in a small space.  It's always awkward to see family...

One of the hardest things about being away at school is not being there for your loved ones when they’re ill. Last October, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, and to say that it was difficult to find...

When it comes to our loved ones there isn’t anything in the world we wouldn’t do for them. We would move heaven and earth just to make sure that they were all right. However, when the relationships between us...

Growing up Italian means so much more than eating pasta, drinking wine and enjoying cannolis. For us Italians, it is all about the family and the strong connection that we have with one another that truly represents our heritage....

Having overbearing parents often results in a stale relationship with your parents. It may not be easy getting along with them when they have strong opinions and ways of asserting them. As a child of overbearing parents, you need...

Grandparents fill our lives with love. People who have the chance to experience the special love that their grandparents' shower on them are very lucky. I am one of those people. I spent a large part of my childhood...

When you get in a relationship, a lot in your life changes as does a lot about you as a person. However, often we think of ourselves in a relationship and not how our relationship might have an impact...

On February 12th, 1998  during a heavy snow storm in Ohio, I was born. 8 minutes later, you were born. Being a twin sister is a unique thing. There has always been two of us. I knew that at...

You know you’ve thought them, before. Now, here they are. 10 brutally honest, uncensored thoughts every parent has that they're too afraid to say out loud. 1. This is THE MOST exhausting thing in the world.  Really. People without kids have no...