Families and Family Life

September 1, 2022

An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes.

Florian Fangohr waffled for about a year over whether to buy an Apple Watch SE as a gift. The smart watch cost $279, and he worried […]
July 11, 2022

We’re Not Asking for the Moon

“A lot of us were raised with this mentality of, ‘Find your passion, be happy, the money will follow.’” <!– –> “I’m in a good place […]
May 12, 2022

Martha Wainwright Tells a Few Stories She Might Regret

With a new memoir, the singer-songwriter from a famous musical family says she is happy to be “letting go of this story of being No. 4 […]
March 25, 2022

The First (and Last) Time She Didn’t Come Home

My sister and I searched for clues in our mother’s desk — and in her life — for why she left us and this world. While […]
February 11, 2022

The Lesbian Writer and Her Flamboyant Gay Husband

Peter taught me to laugh at fate as we lived our dream. At least for a while. Peter and I hitched our wagons young. Early 20s. […]
February 11, 2022

Beyond Cool, She Was Fly. Her Confidence Gave Me Wings.

I had no example of love, not for girls that looked like me. Until my cousin Tiffany. I’ve spent my whole life looking for similarities between […]
February 11, 2022

Our Bond Was Thicker Than Blood

No matter how hard I prayed, my father never appeared. But my godfather always did. I was trying to think about the first time I met […]
February 4, 2022

Loving Him More When He Walks Out the Door

A daily reminder of mortality can be more gift than burden. Six weeks after we married, my husband got a phone call from his mother, and […]
October 29, 2021

A Stranger Looked Like My Twin. That Was Just the Beginning.

How a family secret was unraveled by 23andMe. I was asleep when my identity exploded. One Friday morning in 2019, I awoke in Brooklyn to an […]
July 3, 2021

How Indian Americans Came to Love the Spelling Bee

Since 2008, a South Asian American child has been named a champion at every Scripps National Spelling Bee. Eighth graders aren’t generally known as dictionary aficionados. […]