come correct

When we were younger, our parents were the ones making hospital visits and errand runs for sick relatives and friends. Now we’re grown and it’s our turn.  So in case you’re wondering what you can do for someone close to you who is seriously ill or injured, some suggestions: If they’re in the hospital, call…

There’s a new reality show on the CW, Hitched or Ditched, that gives a couple one week to make plans for an all-expenses-paid wedding.  A week too short to make a commitment that could last for a lifetime?  That’s the catch.  And the tension, the drama, comes at the actual ceremony, when in a paid-for…

You’ve done it: you and your dearly beloved (and your families, probably) have edited and re-edited the guest list for your wedding reception so you’ve included the maximum number of people close to you you can afford to feed after the wedding.  The beautiful invitations went out on time, with their stamped, self-addressed response cards…

Dear Come Correct: I’m getting married about six months from now, to an amazing woman.  We agree on many of the important things—whether we want children and when, where we’d like to live, how to save for a home of our own, etc—but there’s been some tension lately.  Maybe I’m not getting it because I’m…

Dear Come Correct: Let me try to boil this down to the essentials: About five years ago, my dad had an affair with someone who worked with him.  After a scorched-earth divorce, Dad married The Other Woman and mom has remained single.   He and I were close before the divorce; I have managed to…

is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for NPR News and co-author, with Karen Elyse Hudson, of The New Basic Black: Home Training For Modern Times (Doubleday).

Dear CC: The daughter of good friends (or so we thought) is getting married. We know both the daughter and the young man she’s marrying as well, and the young manlooks up to my husband as a role model, we’ve been told.Having said that, we weren’t invited to the wedding, nor to a shower thatseems…

The May and June months seem to be filled with lots of happy occasions—graduation ceremonies, promotions and lots and lots of weddings.  For the next few weeks, we’ll be looking at how you can Come Correct to all of these events.  If you’re wondering, for instance: Do I have to give a present from the…

I paid for something at a check out counter awhile back and noticed, as I was scanning the receipt, that I’d been charged twice for a single item. I pointed it out the cashier and she told me “I can’t do nothing about that. You gotta take it to Customer Service.” “I don’t want to…

I remember spending Mother’s Day with a woman who was furious. “What I want,” she told me “was to stay in and be quiet.” Instead she got dragged out to a noisy brunch. Not her happiest moment. And her husband couldn’t understand why she didn’t appreciate the gesture. Here’s the deal: there are 364 other…