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The endless frustration of getting called by telemarketers during the dinner hour.

This week one of the world's most beautiful voices fell silent forever. Tragically, Whitney Houston passed away at the age of 48. People in the social and broadcast media have been weighing in on what I will term "What Whitney meant to me." Whitney…

An incident that happened recently in my own life was the impetus for this blog. For a few minutes at the time, I looked as if I was behaving childishly about it and my reaction to it, overblown. But there's more to it.

Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of 9/11. I heard Rudy Giuliani last night on CNN' s Anderson Cooper's 360 show. Giuliani, who was mayor of New York City that day, called it the "worst day and the best day." The worst is obvious. But the best…

What stresses me out? One source of distress for me, and maybe for you, is all of the passwords I'm expected to memorize to conduct daily living.

My husband and a friend were talking other night.We got on the subject of families, and since I work in "the biz," people often ask me what the research in the field reveals about this or that. This friend has an "Ordinary People" type of family-the…

Author Don Peck pulls together information from many places-including scholarly sources familiar to NCFR. This article caught my eye because of two family scholars he quotes-Glen Elder and Kathryn Edin (speakers at NCFR conferences)-as well as input…

There is a custom in Minnesota-and I'm not sure to what extent it exists elsewhere-but here and there, roadside memorials materialize that obviously mark the spot of a fatal accident. Sometimes they are in the form of a cross, or sometimes they…

This year in our extended family, due to economic realities, we are celebrating on-the-cheap.

Pauline Boss is a pioneer in the subject of family stress and, in the 1970s, she began to notice a type of grief-frozen grief, she calls it-that families experienced when a loss is ambiguous.