Laura Shapiro once wrote in Newsweek that although Dr. Mary Pipher has "been on Today and Oprah, and numbers [senator and former first lady] Hillary Clinton among her fans, [she] is probably the least glamorous candidate for guruhood who's ever been...

Pipher, best-selling author of 'Reviving Ophelia,' offers coping advice for modern families in her new book. She believes the accumulation of electronic gadgets and commercial messages have isolated individuals and hampered socialization, but that families can work to counteract the effect. It happens...

Pipher believes that camping is an excellent way of promoting a sense of community and youth development. She feels that camps allow children to experience a sense of shared purpose and to build values and skills. Community, is our scarcest commodity in the...

When Edie Herrold heard this week that Sandra Day O'Connor's husband found new love in his retirement home, memories of her own family's story came flooding out. Her father, Lloyd, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, also found love in a retirement home, while her mother...

The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom From My Father on How to Live, Love, and See, by Naomi Wolf. Simon and Schuster, 278 pages, $24.Naomi Wolf is one lucky lass. Oh, she's had her share of troubles-like that time at Yale when Harold Bloom laid his "heavy,...