Quarantine (Life and Culture)

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 16, 2021

Things To Do At Home

This week, discover the cultural and societal impact of sneakers, practice your math skills or explore what a net zero climate might look like. Here is […]
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 13, 2021

What We Learned From a Year of Crafting

Making things — masks, quilts, ceramics, mandalas — was a practical and sometimes political response to the moment. Necessity is the mother of invention, and at […]
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 9, 2021

How to Draw Nature

With a few basic tips you can begin to draw the creatures around you, and remember the joy they bring. If you enjoy watching birds floating […]
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 […]
May 7, 2021

Sandra Bernhard Talks to Her Neighborhood Trees

And how Thelma Golden and Isaac Mizrahi have stayed sane and creative during the pandemic. With the New York charity circuit still on hiatus, here is […]
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 5, 2021

Are You Flourishing?

Asking the question is a start. Welcome. What would it take for you to flourish? To wake up eager to begin the day rather than burrow […]