Melissa Kirsch

June 9, 2021

You Can Emerge as Slowly as You Like

There’s no need to rush. Welcome. You must read Priya Krishna’s story about M.R.E.s, shelf-stable “Meals, Ready-to-Eat” created for the U.S. military but popular with civilians […]
June 4, 2021

What to Do This Weekend

Swimming pools and summer TV. Welcome. Will this summer be a wild, maskless frolic, a Roaring ’20s montage of window sashes flung open, giddy reunions, spontaneous […]
June 2, 2021

Opening Up

Welcome, again. Welcome to At Home and Away. For more than a year now, we’ve been At Home, an effort to help you live a full […]
May 28, 2021

What to Do This Weekend

Summer’s here. Welcome. At Home was born in March 2020, as part of The Times’s effort to help readers lead full and cultured lives at home […]
May 26, 2021

Save Your Houseplants!

Our foliage, ourselves. Welcome. Winters are hard on the Hoya carnosa hanging in my bathroom window. Some time in October, the radiator heat sputters on, the […]
May 21, 2021

What to Do This Weekend

SPF, summer reading, and to-go cocktails. Welcome. It’s getting to be last-day-of-school sunny and warm here in the Northeastern United States. We’re on the verge of […]
May 19, 2021

How to Be Alone

Finding a new balance between solitude and socializing. Welcome. “Sinead O’Connor is alone, which is how she prefers to be.” So begins Amanda Hess’s profile of […]
May 15, 2021

What to Do This Weekend

Craft projects and gospel choirs. Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Welcome. After a year of limited socializing, seeing […]
May 12, 2021

Change Can Happen

There’s proof all around us. Welcome. I’m ready for the living room to be the living room again, and not the living/working/exercising/languishing room it’s been for […]
May 7, 2021

What to do this weekend.

Mother’s Day, ‘Shrill’ and Philip Glass. Welcome. It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday, and some will be gathering in person with family for the first time in […]