SUSAN FLEMING MORGANS

Colorful treetops are beautiful against the blue sky, but look down and you might be surprised at the "characters" you'll meet.

Not much and everything has changed over four decades of "The Young and the Restless?" But can soap operas survive cell phones?

Play football? Ski? Dance? You might be the best on field or stage but end up with the worst whatever your doc has ever seen!

A beach house filled with inspirational plaques provokes thoughts about serious things most of us don't expect to encounter on vacation.

A San Diegan on a college tour helps this Pittsburgh native rediscover the city's allure.

A trip to the sunny Carolina Coast makes for a bittersweet homecoming to cloudy-with-a-chance-of-rain Pittsburgh.

If one train left the station at 2:02 p.m. going 70 mph and the other train left the station at 2:25 going 95 mph, which train would...

Art has been my focus recently, for both happy and sad reasons. Last Wednesday, I attended the first of a series of art history classes...

For more than 50 years, I have been a good skier—no Lindsay Vaughn (although I have had injuries}—but good enough to take on just about...

Before last week, the worst travel “disaster” I had experienced, was the airline losing my bags in Paris for five days, which meant...

My friend, Debbie, suffered an incapacitating stroke in her 40s For 25 years, she has been fiercely independent, rarely asking for help....

Except that I would wear all black every day if I could, and I love shoes (although I don't design them), I’m not very “Warholian,” as...

A new acquaintance mentioned her daughter’s name was Zoe. “Oh, that was my favorite dog’s name,” I said. Her expression suggested she...

I learned some of what I know about football 50 years ago from my husband—who was not my husband or even my boyfriend then and wouldn’t...

My husband, Hal, and I wanted to take our grandkids, Janie and Jake, 12 and 14, on a summer getaway, but with everyone’s busy schedules,...

In 1991, my family hosted an AFS exchange student from Holland for a year, mostly because we thought our only child, Elizabeth, would...

Friends had raved about Northern California’s Napa Valley, so last summer my husband and I deviated from our annual family visit to San...

For many Mt. Lebanon residents, Bird Park is a well-kept secret. For many Mt. Lebanon residents, Bird Park is a well-kept secret. Even...

Standing in the middle of the rubble of what was once DePaul Institute just off McNeilly Road in Mt. Lebanon, it is clear that neglect...