When I had my daughter four years ago, I thought a stack of parenting books would be the map for me. But sometimes the books caused more harm than good.

For some people hoping to build families, adoption offers a wonderful answer to their prayers. Yet adoption can sometimes be a challenging process, both for the child and the parents.

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to learn about a new initiative from Journey to Safety called Make it (Y)our Business.

In the latest New York Times Magazine (8/14/11), the difficult issue of pregnancy reduction was introduced and debated. As the mother of twins and a singleton, and the leader of the Mothers of Multiples group for more than seven years, I had a very strong reaction to this article.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Boston Jewish Community Women's Fund, a new TeenSafe project from Journey to Safety, the JF&CS domestic abuse program, aims to create a dialogue about teen dating abuse in the Jewish community.

Thanks to many of our Family Table volunteers, we distributed groceries to approximately 270 very appreciative families.

For most of us, conversational speech is some version of an equal exchange. That's not always the case when communicating with someone with dementia.