My mom and my aunt are estranged, but I've been close with my aunt since I was young. We started by writing letters to each other and then eventually began talking on the phone. I've learned a lot ...

My great aunt loves living alone in Las Vegas with no family around. She stays busy by entertaining guests, reading novels, ...

Just like in a movie, one of the most incredible and improbable adventures of my life began with an unexpected phone call, and a tantalizing offer from someone I honestly didn’t know that well. An ...

My Aunt Pat was one of four children in a middle-class Irish-American family in southern Vermont; she was born and grew up in the decades between the two World Wars. She and her three siblings—a ...

I still remember the spell by rote. To regain the affections of a loved one who has left you, you must first fill a bowl with holy water. Then gently suspend a flower, either a doradilla or flor de ...