Alzheimer’s Disease

November 6, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘When Two Fantasies Collide’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea Life Circles Back A nightly routine, beginning in kindergarten: I laid […]
February 23, 2024

A Family Dinner With My Wife and Girlfriend

Learning to love two women at once — one living with Alzheimer’s — is a challenge and a blessing. Last Thanksgiving I was seated at the […]
January 16, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Something Told Me to Stay’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Three-Decade Disagreement Vietnam and New York, our worlds were far apart. Camp […]
July 21, 2023

Love Letter: A Father’s New Sight

“It’s as if he’s been studying me each time with fresh eyes.” Rachel Noah Matlow, who uses they/them pronouns, was devastated to watch their father decline […]
July 21, 2023

Why My Father Called Me Son, Daughter, He, She and It

As my father lost his memory, he began to regard my gender as increasingly fluid. My father and I were in Starbucks about a year after […]
February 5, 2021

Modern Love: The Day His Journal Went Blank

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Modern Love The Day His Journal Went Blank A daughter races to collect […]
August 28, 2020

Will They See Me as a Son, a Daughter or a Stranger?

Unlike my mother’s usual emails (with the entire message crammed into the subject line), this one had no text, only an attached photo. I clicked on […]