From 'chickabiddy,' to 'tootsicums,' these terms of endearment are more evocative than any garden-variety 'babe.' ...

That question forms the premise of Michael Koresky's new book, “Films of Endearment: A Mother, a Son and the '80s Films That Defined Us” (Hanover Square Press, 288 pp., ★★★1/2 out of ...

In the emotionally complex world of dementia care, communication is more than just what we say—it's how we say it. Terms of ...

How we express love - from humorous to poignant - varies. Then again, as sweet as our endearments may be, there is a time in most tales of love, when the sound of a certain constellation of ...

One of our terms of endearment began 20 years ago as a typo in an email. Typing hastily, she wrote “my vole,” rather than “my love.” (A vole is a small prairie rodent similar to a hamster.) ...

This week, I and fellow editors of Vows and Modern Love published “Terms of Endearment,” a special project on language and love.In it, we explore why some husbands choose to take their wives ...

"Films of Endearment" dives daringly deep into their complicated relationships with movies like “Mommie Dearest” and Robert Altman’s criminally underseen “Come Back to the Five & Dime ...