A relationship is a shared story, even if it’s hard to agree on the details.No one likes to hang out with couples, like us, who bicker. My husband, Erik, and I usually begin our conversations with good intentions.One day last summer I said to him, “What year did ...
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Michael Porten and Trish Andersen, both artists, collaborated on a microhouse in 2014. The next year, he helped her build huts in France, during what she calls a summer of love.Michael Porten had been sleeping on a piece of foam inside a Savannah, Ga., parking garage when Trish ...
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We don’t marry one person as much as we marry one version of a person. But accepting the person a partner may become can be more challenging.The party-going partner now prefers chamomile tea on the couch. The lover of wanderlust has started to cling to routine. The big ...
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It was a Hot Vax June quickly becoming a Delta Variant July soon to mutate into whatever August was (who can recall at this point?), and there was Clifton Mooney, a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 camera dangling on a nylon strap from his neck — the only part of ...
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Let’s hear it for achievable goals.Welcome. I’ve become fixated on the nook, on making it so comfortable and inviting that uninterrupted hours of reading will have no choice but to happen within it. It’s less nook and more corner, a corner where an old wingback chair has been ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.A Handwritten ReminderMy friend’s annual Christmas card was addressed to “The Perkins Family,” but “The” and “Family” had been crossed out, leaving just my first name, Mary, scrawled above my last. It was a correction that ...
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Eight people on what they plan to dabble in this year — because making official resolutions can doom us to failure, but merely trying a new thing takes the pressure off.If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that planning leads to disappointment and inflexibility is ...
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As the pandemic rages on, the safest place to work out is at home. Here’s how to create a personal gym you’ll want to spend time in.A new year often comes with new resolutions, and for many, those resolutions center on physical fitness. Whether you want to work ...
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As the pandemic rages on, the safest place to work out is at home. Here’s how to create a personal gym you’ll want to spend time in.A new year often comes with new resolutions, and for many, those resolutions center on physical fitness. Whether you want to work ...
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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is down in the dumps. Oscar hopefuls like “King Richard,” “Nightmare Alley” and “West Side Story” have sputtered, and everyone knows that, studio spin aside, the Omicron variant is only partly to blame.What about those stunning Spider-Man grosses? Sure, great, whatever — another superhero ...
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Here we go, 2022. On the first day of the year, after the muted (or not) celebrations had passed, we moved on. Jan. 1 is a day that asks to be marked, and because of that, some of our colleagues took some time out of their Saturday to ...
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Look back, look ahead.Welcome. It’s New Year’s Eve and Omicron has put the brakes on any socially proximate revelry we may have had planned. We’re old pros by now at re-envisioning holidays — we’re old pros at re-envisioning any day, truth be told.Today, for instance, you might not ...
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This week, instead of the usual essay, we’re ushering in the new year with eight Tiny Love Stories about fresh starts.Now It’s All Fresh FishWe are grandparents. The age when most couples stay put. “We need something new,” I said as our Trader Joe’s fish defrosted in our ...
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Aaron, Sondheim, Dole and Didion. But the loss of Colin Powell from the virus spoke most directly to the moment the world is in.Hank Aaron was gone. So were Stephen Sondheim, and Bob Dole, and Cicely Tyson, and Larry King, and Joan Didion. Prince Philip, two months short ...
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