Eight years after “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood,” which shot to No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, Seattle-area novelist Rebecca Wells has returned to mine that same rich vein of ...

It’s hard to resist a book with the title “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood,” especially if you know the Ya-Yas are four wild women from Louisiana who have been fast friends ever since they ...

Rejoice with me. I sustained a deliciously exhausting visitation from three longtime friends last Saturday and lived to tell about it. Barb was the first to arrive. She and I are two of the three ...

MOORHEAD - When the "Ya Yas" were in high school, they hid boys' shoes in the oven in case their party was busted. Although decades have passed, the seven women still laugh as they recall that night ...

Dec. 5—CORBIN — Corbin's dining scene has a new standout with the recent opening of Ya-Ya's Sea and Soul Food, a restaurant dedicated to serving Creole and soul food. Owned by Misty and Michelle ...

Like the lives of its characters, not to mention its title, nothing about “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” is neat, orderly, concise. This is a work of excess and passion, an untidy sprawl of ...

Ya Ya members focused on fun, laughter, movies, food and wine – and no one was a more devoted Ya Ya than Wendy Smith. But the informal support group for five women who survived breast cancer is now ...

As Callie Khouri and I were finishing lunch the other day, an older woman stopped by our table. She’d overheard us trying to make sense of the South and its mysterious hold on generations of writers ...

Kitty Chatelain drove 5 1/2 hours with her mother to see a movie she had already seen. She arrived wearing a tiara, with a feather boa wrapped over her long, flowing dress and with Rich Girl Red nail ...

So I went to a sleepover party the other night. I know, I’m too old for sleepover parties, right? I was thinking the same thing, except the ladies who organized it are all in their 60s, a gaggle of ...

My name is Viviane Abbott Walker. Age sixty-eight, but I can pass for forty-nine. And I do. I altered my driver’s license and kept that gorgeous picture of me when my hair was still thick and I looked ...

This year the 73-year-old ya-ya (the affectionate name for grandmother in Greek) will walk for the 32nd year in the 32nd-annual Lancaster CROP Walk. Three other ya-yas Joanna Mammas, Maria ...