Dear Anna,

My husband and I welcomed our beautiful daughter six months ago, and while we're absolutely in love with her, I feel like my husband and I are just ships passing in the night. Between diaper changes, feedings and sleep deprivation, our relationship has taken a backseat. Date nights seem like a distant memory, and when we do have a ...Read more

A real estate broker, an auctioneer and a columnist walk into a bar. Not really, but the setup is similar. I was standing with two friends, a man who sells real estate and a woman who appraises art and manages auctions. The three of us have known one another and one another’s families for years.

The man immigrated to the U.S. from Central ...Read more

Q. My best friend’s husband passed away. She has been devastated and decided to join a grief group where she met a man who was also struggling with the loss of his wife. They hit it off, and although they each still maintain a separate residence, they stay together every night. They are both in their late 70s and were both married for over 50 ...Read more

Getting rid of debt is a goal many Americans have. Not only does eliminating debt improve your financial health, but it is also likely to have a positive impact on your mental health. Assessing your outstanding balances, selecting a debt payoff strategy, and formulating a game plan are good starting points for getting out of debt once and for ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- For over 50 years, residents of the mostly Black, largely rural Lower Richland community have relied on the Hopkins Pool for swimming lessons, water aerobics and to be a gathering place on hot summer days.

But after those decades and almost no substantial repairs, the pool all but fell apart in 2023. Up to 1,000 gallons of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Bonsai Club, which claims to be the oldest organization of its kind in the United States, celebrated its 79th annual Bonsai Show on Saturday at the Sacramento Buddhist Church in Land Park, featuring around 70 trees from across the region.

Since 1946, bonsai caretakers from Sacramento have shared their ...Read more

PART I of II

Dear Kid Whisperer,

I am the principal of a private, secular, K-8 school. Every year that I have been principal, the behaviors start out fine in the fall, and slowly deteriorate after that, no matter how hard we work at it. They are particularly bad in our middle school. Some of our programming involves having class meetings when ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- When Shelby Hamm graduated high school four years ago during the pandemic, she thought that would be the biggest challenge of her academic career.

“When the pandemic happened, and I was a junior in high school, it was really the first time that I had been looking towards the future, and now something from the outside that I...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, on Wednesday commended 160 Philadelphia students as “pioneers.”

Pupils at four Philadelphia School District high schools have enrolled in the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award — the first from any big-city district in the U.S. to take on the challenge.

The award, founded by ...Read more

Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory. Tovar, 32, grew up poor and was the first in her family to graduate from high school. During her first year in college, she realized she didn’t know how to study.

But after years of studying biology and ...Read more

Of all the roles that Donald Trump has held during the course of his life, the most consistent has been performer.

Whether he’s helming a real estate company, backing a string of casinos or bankrolling a football team; founding Trump University or purchasing Miss Universe; running for president or running the country, he makes sure to perform...Read more

Of all the roles that Donald Trump has held during the course of his life, the most consistent has been performer.

Whether he’s helming a real estate company, backing a string of casinos or bankrolling a football team; founding Trump University or purchasing Miss Universe; running for president or running the country, he makes sure to perform...Read more

MIAMI — Piles of smelly seaweed have washed ashore on Miami Beach and Key Biscayne, a stinky reminder that this is sargassum season.

The brown seaweed is a common sight across the Caribbean and on South Florida beaches.

Researchers who track seaweed blooms expect 2025 to be another “major sargassum year” for the Atlantic Basin — but ...Read more

The Unplugged group of salvias is doubling in size this year with the addition of Unplugged Red and the new passion of my heart, Unplugged White. I wrote about the group a few months ago but Unplugged White deserves its own column now.

I’ve explained before that I am new to white. I know that sounds crazy coming from a guy who will try every ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Rony Islam usually visits Welles Park in the morning to read a book, lie out in a hammockand enjoy a quiet moment alone. But recently, Islam has instead been going to to read in the 4700 block of North Lincoln Avenue — an area typically filled with parked cars where people run to and from stores, going about their day.

The 4700 ...Read more

Peggy Frank loves old research books, especially ones about history. But they aren’t always available through her local library collection in suburban Naperville, Illinois, where she’s lived for the past 45 years.

But in Frank’s community — and hundreds like it in Illinois — proximity is not a prerequisite for access. Not with a state...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Community colleges play a critical role in addressing California's persistent demand for health care workers, preparing students to become the state's next generation of nurses, medical assistants and physical therapy aides.

But in the Los Angeles Community College District, where more than half of all students report incomes ...Read more