Loneliness

May 14, 2020

Haunted House? These People Are in Isolation With Ghosts.

It started with the front door. Adrian Gomez lives with his partner in Los Angeles, where their first few days of sheltering in place for the […]
May 13, 2020

Alone.

Claire Manship belted songs out the window. Ketaki Chowkhani began barking at a stray puppy. Blake Mitchell performed in drag. As millions of people grapple with […]
May 5, 2020

Working From Home Has Benefits Some Don't Want to Lose

For Jeff Anderson, 61, working from home during the coronavirus pandemic has been a respite from office politics and the chatter around the copy machine. But […]
May 1, 2020

How to Be a Good Neighbor Now

We walk the dogs across the meadow in the rain. We don’t talk much. We say the same things over and over, and yet somehow there’s […]
April 23, 2020

Be a Friend to the Elderly, Get Paid

Bill Rodger, 91, often finds himself sitting on a worn flower-print couch in his living room in North Hollywood, Calif., facing a wall of accolades that […]
April 6, 2020

I Think We’re Alone Now. Welcome.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to be alone. I’m a writer in my mid-40s who is neither partnered nor has […]