PHILIP GALANES

April 2, 2020

My City Friends Want to Wait Out the Virus in My Suburban Home

A couple of weeks ago, before Covid-19 exploded in New York, a close friend asked if she and her husband could leave Manhattan and stay with […]
March 19, 2020

People Are Dying. But What About My Basketball Tournament?

Thanks to the new coronavirus, my son’s basketball tournament was canceled last week. (He is 12 and plays in a middle school league.) He loves the […]
March 5, 2020

Anything but the Phone Background

I am a widower of five years. Two years ago, I started dating another woman. At that time, I removed all pictures of my late wife […]
February 27, 2020

Is My Adult Son Too Old for House Rules?

We will be hosting our son, daughter-in-law and 3-year-old grandchild at our winter home for 10 days. My daughter-in-law is extremely lazy: She takes frequent naps […]
February 6, 2020

You Seriously Want Me to Go Out With Her?

My stepdaughter is in a polyamorous relationship with a married woman. My husband and I are saddened by her choice; we see no happy ending for […]
October 31, 2019

Welcome Home! I Did a Little Redecorating

Returning home from a trip during which my in-laws stayed with our kids, I discovered my mother-in-law had replaced our kitchen chairs with a set she […]
October 24, 2019

Let’s Double Date. But Maybe Your Wife Could Stay Home?

My husband has become close friends with a man he met through work. He and his wife live nearby, and we’ve gone out with them as […]
October 3, 2019

My Mom Obsesses Over Her Love Life. She Couldn’t Care Less About Mine.

My father died two years ago. Since then, my mother began online dating. But she hasn’t dated in 40 years, and she’s reverted to acting like […]
February 1, 2018

Social Q’s: If You Love Me, Why Won’t You GoFundMe?

Advertisement I am heartbroken! Please help me understand why friends have kept silent, not donated or even acknowledged my GoFundMe plea. I am recovering from breast […]
January 25, 2018

Social Q’s: When Hollywood Ageism Hits Close to Home

Advertisement For years, a college friend (in her 50s) has forbidden me from telling anyone we went to school together. Since moving to Hollywood, she deducted […]