My mother’s terrifying fear of losing me started with her fear of being lost herself

A Mother’s Day farewell to the coolest First Lady ever

Since my mom died, she is with me all the time—with a warmth she rarely managed in life

Growing up, I always wished I had someone else for a mom. But after my mother died, I finally came to appreciate what she’d taught me.

It was from her daughter, and it’s delightfully simple

Smothering or mothering? That’s the question artist Mirta Kupferminc asks

U.K. reality show Jewish Mum of the Year hunts for the most unbearable person on Earth

A feverish love of collecting masked a family’s shameful truth: There was no money.

On the annual trip to visit mom, I fought with her, my boyfriend almost drowned, and I didn’t want to leave

Samuel G. Freedman wrestles with how to write about his mother, and ends up doing some kind of penance.