Leslie Mann

After Anne Marie Murphy came to the United States from her native Ireland to earn her doctorate in molecular genetics from Johns Hopkins University, she planned to "become an academician,"...

In 1973, Queta Rodriguez traveled from her home in Mexico City for a yearlong visit with her uncle in New York City. She tagged along with her uncle's buddy to...

If Mother's Day falls during "rummage week," brunch at home may be postponed for the Menn-Erwin clan. Each year, the women in the family work the Winnetka Congregational Church rummage...

Participants in The Human Race on Saturday in Downers Grove will be running or walking to benefit not one but about 50 nonprofit organizations. Nadja Birkholz of On the Spot...

Angela Gonzalez shares her Carrollton, Texas, home with Peaches, a Pomeranian she adopted from an animal shelter in 2002. When a new boyfriend tried to squeeze Peaches out of the...

You can't miss Becky Vinehout's station at Focas Hair Salon in St. Charles. It's the one with the mannequin heads. All have prominent scars — but some have snazzy hairdos...

Finding a husband is not like buying a new pair of shoes, Emilia Pop recalls her Romanian grandmother, Ana, warning her. "You cannot get a new pair. Where we come...