Courtenay Harris Bond

More people die by suicide than by motor vehicle crashes. And if you think you are immune, you are not.

I have trouble waiting for anything: a paycheck, the weekend, a manicure. Imagine my chagrin when my children, from birth, exhibited the same impatience that has tortured me.

One of the wonderful things about having children is that they introduce you to new experiences – to worlds you never inhabited in your ...

Paul Yabor, 55, an activist in the HIV/AIDs and harm reduction communities who suffered from a substance use disorder himself, died last week Tuesday of a drug overdose.

I awoke Mother’s Day to a sparkling spring morning, feeling generous and giving just like a good mother should. I glanced at ...

The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...

I feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is a solitary candle about to blow out at any moment. At the same ...

I have never felt worse than I did during my pregnancies. Just six weeks into finding out I was carrying twins, soon after the fir ...

After meeting Lolly, I suddenly understood that I had a third grandmother — still a sparkplug — someone I may have never really known ...

There was the time we kept our three children up until 1 a.m. before flying from Philadelphia to Seattle, hoping that they would sleep on ...

How often had I actually been altruistic, I recently wondered, recalling a day in the mid-1990s when, still in my naïve 20s, I ...

This month we cleaned out our garage—a gargantuan chore that involved the whole family and threatened to send a rift through ...