So often new mothers have an image of what motherhood will be like once their baby arrives. But many times those images do not show a true picture of how different life will be. This week Dr....

The House of the Seven Gables was Hawthorne's follow-up to The Scarlet Letter. The book tells the story of an evil house, cursed by a man who was hanged centuries before for witchcraft. The house is...

Sharon Terry, President and CEO of the Genetic Alliance, shares the story of her own family’s struggle with a rare genetic disorder, and the work that she and her organization are doing to help...

James Joyce paints vivid portraits of the poorer classes of Dublin in a collection of stories whose larger purpose, he said, was to depict a "moral history of Ireland." From the first story, in...

The Shunning is the first book in a trilogy set in a quiet Amish community. On the eve of her wedding, Katie Lapp watches as the only life she has ever known begins to unravel, leaving in its...

Today childhood obesity afflicts almost 2 out of every 10 kids, and the trend is projected to increase. Yet 40 years ago, back in the 1960’s, childhood obesity wasn’t a major headline or a national...

How Art Can Help You Age Better. Dr. Michael Brickey interviews Amy Gorman on how art helps us age better. Her book Aging Artfully and film profiles artists in their 90s and100s.

We begin a series of shows focusing on caregiving. Caregiving defined. Interviews with Nancy Nitikman and Margaret Smith about their roles as caregivers for their aging parents....

Part 1: William Thiel shares his hear breaking story of how his wife was misdiagnosed by 2 doctors and died an agonizing death of breast cancer. His mission to warn other women and alert them to the...

The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman's son fallen...