This Mother’s Day, Don’t Send Gifts
On this Mother’s Day, if you want to score big with your mother, call her....
Melissa T. Shultz
Have You Tried Breakwinda Yoga?
I'm not proud of it: I make grunting noises whenever I bend over to pick something up. The same kinds of noises made by people 25 years my senior. For someone w...
How I Re-Connected With My Husband After The Kids Went Off To College
At first, we didn't have much to talk about other than our kids. Now we talk about everything, and nothing at all. ...
The Importance of the Father/Daughter Relationship
If I could pass along a message to all my sisters out there who've felt the pain and shame of a poor father/daughter relationship, the message would be in two parts....
Old Furniture: Toss It Or Keep?
The secret to a long and happy marriage is not to invest in a couch....
How I Lost My Father’s Voice and Found My Own
With my father's Mont Blanc I begin to write his eulogy....
Empty Nest? Nurture The Dog
"What's the empty nest like?" I asked him. "What do you do with all the energy you once dedicated to nurturing your kids?"...
The Pre-Empt Chronicles: The Sisterhood of Mothers
Melissa T. Shultz
I recently wrote a paean to Motherhood and put it away to publish on, you guessed it -- Mother's Day. Since then, I was in a multi-car accid...
Melissa T. Shultz
Melissa writes about life’s journey -- the wistful, the wonderful, and the wry. Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines including: Newsweek, The Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Huffington Post, BetterAfter50.com, The Los Angeles Times, as well as CNN Radio. You can follow her on Twitter @MelissaTShultz and on her blog: http://www.sisterhoodofmothers.com/ where you'll find stories about the issues that shape the lives, and resonate within the hearts, of moms over 40.