Jennette released a memoir, titled 'I'm Glad My Mom Died,' that detailed the alleged abuse she experienced from her mother ...

I don’t live far from my mother. Nor do I have a prior engagement that I can’t get out of. My day is free and clear. But I don't want to see my mom.

For nearly 11,000 of those days, or 30 years, she’s been my upbeat mother-in-law, always glad to receive visitors, greeting everyone with a dimpled smile. Her kids, all of them senior citizens except ...

My mom had called me out of the blue to confirm a plan she and my sister Ellen had hatched to put me on the deed to her house. I don’t know what made her mention the liverwurst she’d picked up ...

My wife and I are considering asking my mother-in-law to move in with us. There are plenty of benefits to multigenerational households. We have room in our home for her, it's good for our budget ...

Of course, I'd never known that side of my father, I'd said, because he'd left my mother before I was born. "Well, yeah," Danny had replied, "he was gone, except for the thing with your sister." ...

My mother and grandparents and I were cocooned by the rarity of our language. Read More: We’re Still Living in the World That Inspired Animal Farm —75 Years Later ...

My mother died before my first book was published in 1993, and it’s only now, 17 books into my career, that I understand it was perhaps all an apprenticeship to earn the right to tell her story.