Family

Right around the beginning of the summer our 2-year-old, Anton, began delighting us with a new phrase. While riding his trike or swinging in...

This is my first summer at home full time with my school-aged children, and so far, I'm loving it more than I even imagined. True, we've tackled...

Dear Carol: My dad has Alzheimer's. Recently, he had a bad fall and needed to be hospitalized. Dad was given Dilaudid for pain, but the drug...

If I had to sum up in one word what it feels like to be a parent — the day-to-day reality of parenthood — I'd say conflicted. You...

OK, so we have enough chicken nuggets for Callie for a while. Did I check the ketchup? We have ketchup. When is that person's birthday? What...

Little Miss is at the age where missing teeth are a regular occurrence around our home. Her fourth tooth in nine months came out the other...

Arndt Braaten was never one to make impulsive decisions. When he was confirmed into the Lutheran church, for example, the 13-year-old saw it...

DULUTH — Morgan Long loved the color purple, butterflies and Converse tennis shoes. "Fifteen at least," said her friend Anissa Jones about...

For years, I was under the impression that my husband and I had cultivated the near-perfect marriage, the two of us like His and Her Majesty,...

DULUTH, Minn. — Those early days owning a bait shop were touch-and-go for Sue Chalstrom. She and her husband, John, had just bought their...

I wasn't more than 10 minutes into my first solo canoe trip to the Boundary Waters when an old, familiar emotion took hold. I hadn't felt it...

Hi Katie. It's me, Jessica. I'm the woman whose article about infertility you responded to in a letter entitled, "A strong faith is all you need...

FARGO — I stared at the survey question, not sure I dared answer with the truth. "What part of parenting did no one warn you about?" it...

Andriana and Aleks Sethre figured they would be better off by now. At age 30, they'd followed the rule book to success: finished high school,...