Melissa Kirsch

December 9, 2023

What’s on Your Best-of List for 2023? We Want to Know.

Best line from a movie? Best pasta recipe? Best advice? Tell us your highly subjective, super-specific favorites from the past year. What’s on your own best-of […]
January 28, 2022

A Change of Address

This isn’t goodbye. Welcome. The newsletter you’re reading began life as “At Home” in the spring of 2020, with the goal of helping Times readers lead […]
January 27, 2022

This winter’s comfort foods.

What we’re eating. Welcome. One night last week, cold and tired after a busy day, I craved a very specific comfort food from childhood for dinner: […]
January 21, 2022

What to Do This Weekend

It’s a TV bumper crop. Welcome. It’s peak season for indoor cats, for tea-sippers and soup-stirrers and, most crucially, for binge-watchers. After a couple of relatively […]
January 19, 2022

What Have You Dreamed About Lately?

Night visions, two years in. Welcome. I keep forgetting how I know things. With so much of life transpiring through screens — Zoom calls, group texts, […]
January 14, 2022

What to Do This Weekend

Mac and cheese and SAG Award nominees. Welcome. The question is not if it is a good weekend for making mac and cheese, but rather which […]
January 12, 2022

What We’re Looking Forward to This Year

Hopes and goals for 2022. Welcome. On the last day of last year, I asked what, if anything, you were looking forward to in 2022. Since […]
January 7, 2022

What to Do This Weekend

Tiny plans for 2022. Welcome. I just subscribed to The Times’s 2022 space and astronomy calendar, so I’ll be reminded on April 21 that I might, […]
January 5, 2022

The New Year Begins

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 […]
December 31, 2021

What to Do This Weekend

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 […]