Life’s biggest milestones don’t always happen on a neat timeline. Sometimes, they overlap—beautifully, messily, and in ways that force us to navigate family dynamics in real time. That was the case ...

Most everybody loves an excuse to attend a good party. But these days, there seems to be more and more invites to the self-absorbed and self-indulgent kind, which lack the aforementioned “good” part.

Dear Heloise: I hear a lot of talk about gender reveal parties, but where I’m from, there are far too many ungrateful mothers-to be. At a recent baby shower, the mom-to-be opened a box with one of the ...