Children and Childhood

September 7, 2022

An 11-Year-Old Geneva Schoolgirl Is Making a Name for Herself in Watches

A Geneva schoolgirl has spent the last year charming the industry with her online opinions about timepieces. GENEVA — She loves colorful high-top Nike sneakers and […]
September 5, 2022

Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa

Mark Kuhn is hunched over, one knee on the ground, pulling dandelions from an otherwise immaculate lawn. With a small, serrated blade, he carefully carves tiny […]
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 […]
August 19, 2022

‘A Last Act of Intimate Kindness’

I had barely seen my brother in decades, but when time was short, he let me in. The message I had dreaded for years appeared on […]
June 24, 2022

What They Wanted

My grandparents died as they lived: on their own terms and holding hands. There was nothing traditional about my grandparents, other than, perhaps, my grandmother’s rabid […]
May 21, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons Moves Beyond Nerd Culture

The role-playing game has never been more popular, and players seem to be getting more out of it than ever before. Everyone’s been playing Dungeons & […]
March 29, 2022

A Model’s Refugee Story

Irina Lazareanu has a new book about her life in fashion. But it was her life before fashion that haunts her now. It was the recent […]
March 4, 2022

Becoming a Woman Without Her

In my mother’s absence, I’m learning how to construct a sense of self — and femininity — from fragments, friends, music and memories. My mother told […]
February 11, 2022

Julian Shapiro-Barnum interviews kids for his social media sensation “Recess Therapy.”

Julian Shapiro-Barnum interviews kids for his social media sensation “Recess Therapy.” Julian Shapiro-Barnum brims with creative energy, often scribbling ideas for new projects in his Moleskine […]
January 14, 2022

Our Kinder, Gentler, Nobody-Moves-Out Divorce

When the end of a marriage means living on separate floors of the same house. When my ex-husband’s girlfriend stepped out of the bathroom wrapped in […]