Modern Love (Times Column)

December 15, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Tears Start Before My Feet Stop’

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December 8, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Met During a Bomb Threat’

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December 1, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Sex Is Still Spectacular’

17 Years Later A posh Westchester County girl and a poor Mississippi farm boy meet in Jiu-Jitsu class. At university, she studies operational meteorology; he studies […]
November 24, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Could Only See Each Other’s Eyes’

A Mint Lifesaver After the funeral, I tidied the guest room for my mother, who was moving in temporarily while adjusting to life without my father. […]
November 17, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It Soothes Me to Know Someone So Gentle’

Magic in Manila At 5, I believed that my father could perform magic. In Manila’s moist heat, he drove in stop-and-go traffic with five screaming children […]
November 10, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Had a Lot of Feelings and Nowhere to Put Them’

Just Me and My Sea Monkeys I was in love and in lockdown in a small flat in Leith, Scotland. I had a lot of feelings […]
October 27, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Do I Always Tilt My Head Like That?’

Embracing a New Life and Love When I lifted the baby girl to my chest, it was love, overwhelming and instant. Then came the Spider-Man light-up […]
October 20, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Our Refuge From Reality’

With a Touch of Love My father, Seung-ho, has always had an eye for little details. About two months into sheltering-in-place, I asked him to grab […]
October 2, 2020

Love Letter: Is It Time to Break Up?

As that old song goes, “breaking up is hard to do,” especially during a global pandemic. While ending things with a partner might be tougher right […]
September 22, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Didn’t Want to Like Him’

‘Don’t Ever Lose This Rock’ Six years ago, on a humid evening at an open-air bar in Vietnam, a tipsy acquaintance gave me a rock. She […]