I'm 44. My father is 77. About a year ago, I quietly gave up on hearing it before he died.

DEAR ABBY: While we were growing up, my father was abusive toward me and favored my younger sister. He said she was “too dumb to be successful,” so he pushed me mercilessly (punishing me when I wasn’t ...

A racy show about a romance between male hockey players was not an obvious candidate for me to bond with my 89-year-old father. By David Samuel Levinson When my 89-year-old father told me that he ...