My husband teaches public high school. Thanks to the vagaries of geography, we live in a place where a public school teacher's salary sets us firmly in the middle class. We don't lack for much but ...

“People say hateful things [and] ask why we built our house in the middle of the ocean,” said one homeowner. Several houses in a North Carolina beachfront community are in jeopardy of being washed ...

When I was growing up, the news was always on in our house and my parents wanted me to really understand what was happening in the world. When something big happened, they would have me watch the news ...