One of your favorite things on Christmas is watching your young children open their gifts with joy and reckless abandon. They are genuinely happy and so innocent. It is a picture perfect moment, one that you do not dare miss a moment of, and you...

In your family, it is not a genuine Christmas unless every single member of the family is there. Your family has managed to work out this tradition, and each member always comes through and shows up. They schedule their other gatherings and obligations around this...

Parents are forgiving, and their instinct is to always protect their young, even if their young are not really young anymore. They may have been extremely angry with you in the past, or you have seen them so upset that it makes you want to...