A new book suggests that there is radical potential in taking a career break — or "power pause" — to raise your kids.

The first and only phone message I’ve gotten from my kid’s elementary school this year was about parking lot safety reminders ...

It would be a beautiful day if it weren’t for the ash. It’s everywhere, even in my neighborhood in Venice — settling over the streets, falling from the sky. Even with the doors and windows ...

Last month I peeked my head into my son’s bed cave at 9:15 a.m. and whispered to him that I was off to a meeting, then to a friend’s house. When I squeezed his foot as I zipped him back in ...

“If I could get an IV of Diet Coke, I would,” Daryl-Ann Denner tells me over Zoom. We’re sitting in our respective kitchens sipping on large Diet Cokes, also known as “LDCs” to the ...

Five heavily documented teenagers describe mild embarrassment, a healthy fear of social media, and — get this — empathy for their parents. But what about their children, the kids they ...

It was 6 p.m., about a month into my son’s kindergarten year, when an email popped up telling me there’d be a lockdown drill at school the next day. I responded in a fugue state, replying to ...

In retrospect, the butter incident may have been a sign. Eight weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Kylee Tingstrom of Jacksonville, Florida, got an IUD, and didn’t think much of it; she ...

Ten months after her husband, Hal, died, Rebecca Woolf posted on Instagram that she was in a new relationship. She hadn’t meant to “‘meet someone’ meet someone,” as she put it.

When author Edan Lepucki’s son was in the fifth grade, his Los Angeles school went on lockdown. Through his Gizmo watch, he left a voicemail for his mom that pains Lepucki to remember even now.