Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.