When I was 17, I got my private pilot's license. One evening, the strangest thing happened - your talk show could be heard over the radio in the cockpit... More >>

...I was sitting in a fast food parking lot when I saw a 70ish-year-old man walk to his car and open the door for his wife... More >>

...I started listening to you and was mesmerized at your insight on family dynamics and relationships in general, particularly about the effect the absence of a mother makes on the development of a child like ours... More >>

...I was raised by working parents, who instilled in me the value of hard work and the importance of a career. I became a pharmacist, but even in school, I felt conflicted about how I would juggle being a great pharmacist and a great mom too... More >>

I started listening to you in my mid-twenties when I was naïve and lost. I didn't think the values you talked about existed... More >>

I know that my husband and I managed to escape the statistics - our marriage should never have worked. When we met, he was just out of a bad marriage, we were both on active duty, and he had two minor children... More >>

Several days a week, my two-year-old daughter and I go to the gym together while my older kids are at school. They have a childcare room where you can leave the kids while you run on the treadmill or take a spinning class... More >>

...In between applying for new jobs, my wife started spending more time at the daycare when she went to get our son. She started to notice the cold, uncaring, unloving institutional side of daycare... More >>

...One day, when our oldest grandson was about four years old, he was playing outside, and I heard him walking around and kind of talking to himself... More >>

..Now, I always recall your adage that you have two chances for a good parent/child relationship. I clung to that after I married and started having children... More >>