Families and Family Life

November 19, 2016

This Life: When Tech Is a Problem Child

This Life By BRUCE FEILER In the Broadway classic “The Music Man,” set in 1912, the con artist Harold Hill shows up in River City, Iowa, […]
October 1, 2016

The Other Trump

Like place cards at a society wedding or the lineup at a Soviet May Day parade, the seating at a campaign event is a GPS map […]
September 23, 2016

Social Q’s: Siblings Who Don’t Play Nice After a Mother’s Death

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES It has been two years since my mother died, and the Jewish holidays are around the corner again. The problem: They […]
September 17, 2016

Table for Three: Table for Three: Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism

Table for Three By PHILIP GALANES Tracee Ellis Ross may be working 14 hours a day in Los Angeles on her hit TV show, “black-ish.” “But […]
July 15, 2016

Modern Love: At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor

Modern Love By PUTSATA REANG This past December, after not talking to me for several months, my mother called from her rural Oregon home. I listened […]
April 7, 2016

Social Q’s: For Co-Workers, What’s in a (Nick)Name

April 7, 2016 Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES I am a woman in my 20s and work in a small, friendly office of 20 people. My […]
April 1, 2016

Social Q’s: A Teenage Girl Searching for a New Normal

March 31, 2016 Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES I am a 16-year-old girl who was in a serious car crash. I had to have muscle grafts […]
March 24, 2016

Social Q’s: A Daughter’s Looks Aren’t Everything

March 24, 2016 Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES I have a 6-year-old daughter who is very pretty. She didn’t get her looks from her father or […]
March 19, 2016

A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood

By KATHERINE ROSMAN March 19, 2016 LOS ANGELES — The home that Natasha Gregson Wagner shares with her husband, his sons and their daughter in Venice, a seaside […]
March 17, 2016

Social Q’s: Sibling Revelry, Threatened

March 17, 2016 Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES We are a family of four siblings. We always got along pretty well, then our luck ran out. […]