Both of my parents deserve the credit, but it was and has always been my mom who does the bulk of the cleaning — and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

LaVina Hawkins is a 45-year-old who lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland. When she was 9, she went to her first sleepover and was teased by the other girls. She called her mom and asked to be picked up.

My world has always been conditioned by an automatic assumption of reproductive rights that my mother, the writer Erica Jong, did not have when she came of age. I was born in 1978, five years after ...

My mom told me that “a to-do list is like a mental compass that you use to navigate the ocean of junk inside your head,” our essayist writes. In the morning, before getting up, I write this to-do list ...