Love (Emotion)

May 7, 2021

Doing ‘The Washing Machine’ With My 84-Year-Old Mother

How a ridiculous dance — several, actually — kept us connected through Covid. When I see my mother on the screen holding her hot-pink, one-pound dumbbells, […]
May 4, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Every Morning We Got Up and Did It Again’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Still Cooking Side by Side I fry cutlets for chicken parmigiana, doing math: […]
April 30, 2021

He Delivered for Me

How my UPS man went from annoyance to emotional lifeline. For the first year of our relationship, I didn’t know his name and didn’t welcome his […]
April 27, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Why Can’t You Find Someone?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Tito’s Trust Tito asked me to marry him, but not for the happily […]
April 23, 2021

My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third?

My mind could rationalize polyamory, but my heart rebelled. I had been wandering the liquor store for some minutes when the clerk approached and asked if […]
April 20, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My First Spring Without Her’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. What I Want to Remember I started cleaning our apartment so I could […]
April 16, 2021

Modern Love: I Tried to Filter Him Out

As a Pakistani Muslim, I knew that falling for a Hindu Indian would break me. And it did. We started texting during the early months of […]
April 13, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘You’ll Understand Someday’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Waving From the Other Side On my father’s workdays, he would wait for […]
April 9, 2021

My Ridiculous Dating System Totally Works!

There’s just one catch. Last year, in the middle of the pandemic, I appeared as a guest on a (now-defunct) dating show. With cameras rolling, I […]
April 6, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Relieved About a Friend’s Failure’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words Looking for Someone, Maybe You My boss at the Design Industries Foundation Fighting […]