My wife and I will soon be, in the parlance of parenting, empty nesters. It’s a term I’ve decided to reject. I’ve been rejecting a lot of things lately, if I’m being honest. Things like the fact that ...

On a sunny Thursday in August, my husband and I dropped off our daughter Eleanor for her freshman year of college. The three of us raced to unload the car during our 8–8:20-a.m. time slot, lugged ...

Addie Engstrom knew her kids would leave home someday. But when she dropped her youngest child off at college in late August this year, the reality of being an empty nester hit hard. "When they're ...