I channeled my later mother's optimism and strength as my newborn niece fought for her life.

My father's quiet nature masked a significant part of his adult life that only came to light after his death in 1982.

Kolkata, the Indian city I left for America as a child of 6, has bewitched me like a distant lover for much of my life.

Documentarian Leah Warshawski captures the story and impact of her larger-than-life grandmother in the film Big Sonia.

We expect our children to follow a set path—college, career, family. How should parents react when that path is derailed by depression?

My husband, our two sons—ages 7 and 10—and I are spending a year in Israel. We went from Brooklyn to Bavli, a neighborhood in Tel Aviv.

It is good to speak of my son in unremarkable words. I look back to when he was 16, and I had to tell him a difficult truth.

I was not just stir-crazy but screen-crazy. I work on two computer screens and then there is my Kindle. But on Shabbat my screens go dark.