Weather permitting, Kappy Lundy and Barbara Thompson are heading out to Vancouver, Wash., on Saturday night to have a holiday dinner with the parents of their daughter’s husband. Yes, these women both mothered the same children — now grown and with children of their own. Ms. Lundy is their

Loving relationships are the most important factor in a man’s happiness, success, and ability to live a fully flourishing life. And one of the most important factors in creating and sustaining these warm, intimate relationships is communication. Unfortunately, how to communicate with one’s

Fran McDowell and her husband, the Rev. Herbert Beadle Jr., who died three years ago.Credit Courtesy of Fran McDowell Every year, Fran McDowell waited for the summer week when she would sing in a choral festival in the North Carolina mountains, then spend a few days in a lakeside cabin with close

Resilience, the subject of a large-scale study published recently in The Gerontologist, reminds me of what a Supreme Court justice once said of pornography: It’s hard to define, but we know it when we see it. We’ve all noticed resilience’s effects, haven’t we? Most older people cope with several

All over the world, in many different languages, at this very moment (accounting for time differences), there are couples having a conversation that goes kind of like this: Woman: Why didn’t you call me when you were going to be late? Man: Something just came up at work. What’s the big deal? Woman: