I don't have kids, and therefore, I take a lot of trips with my godsons. Throughout the year, we take easy day trips around South Florida that don't require too much planning, and we also take weekend ...

I wanted to go on a perfect family vacation this past Christmas, even though my family had fallen apart. As a daughter, a wife, a mother, I’d never pulled it off, never experienced that joyous, ...

Growing up with three siblings, I regularly spent my summers at a beach house with cousins and spring breaks in Arizona, watching the San Francisco Giants' spring training. I always thought I'd do the ...

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Every year for the last 30 years, my mom and I have taken the same summer vacation. We stay in the same hotel, eat at the same pizza joint, and ski at the same waterskiing school. It's like Groundhog ...

As a kid, I never understood it when the adults around me complained about the quick passage of time. Didn’t they realize my next birthday was still eons away? Now, of course, I find myself repeating ...