France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate.
I’m working at a resort as a receptionist. I’m not in a relationship now because I just got out of one where I had an abusive boyfriend. I didn’t want to get involved again so soon after.
It was close to the end of the occupation of the Philippines by Japanese forces. Having heard that his parents Teodoro and Purificacion had been captured by Japanese soldiers and Filipino aides in their mountain hideout in Duero, Bohol, the young Jose Veloso Abueva, then 16, set out with two young cousins to look for them.
Losing an election feels very much like the end of a relationship, complete with the anxiety, attendant heartbreak, sorrow and sleepless nights.
Save? Whatever for? The ticking of my own body clock tells me that my future is playing right now, and that spending, not saving, is what makes perfect sense. Free from responsibilities except to myself, it’s time to throw caution to the wind and make my remaining time worth it.
Joyce Brothers, the pop psychologist who pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s and enjoyed a long and prolific career as a syndicated columnist, author, and television and film personality, has died. She was 85.
My mother took up running as a sport at age 40. Several years later, my father died, and she became a widow at 47.
IT DIDN’T happen like in the movies or the way you thought it would happen—your father saying a tearful goodbye to your mother at her deathbed, then bringing her to her final resting place, and finally retreating into a period of grief.
I am a mother to four amazing children ages 18 to 27 years old, and for 18 years my marriage was bliss. My husband and I supported each other’s careers and encouraged each other’s growth. I went up the corporate ladder of a big retail service chain in the US while he stayed in his job here and visited the kids and me regularly. He did quite well in his own field, the military, and earned his stars.
WE WERE seven senior women who declared “Time out!” from domestic duties and social commitments to ponder our journey, to remember the past, and feel more keenly alive in the present.
I woke up this morning with tears in my eyes, and realized that in a few days it will be Mother’s Day. My mom would have been 92.
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