Modern Love (Times Column)

July 18, 2023

Tiny Modern Love Stories: ‘Her Smooth Leg Brushing Mine’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. An Admittedly American Girl 1969. Me, an American girl wanting a Girl Scouts […]
July 11, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who I Was Without a Wedding Ring’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Portrait of Father and Son Growing up in the 1950s, I was […]
July 4, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Entire Body Shook With Passionate Interest’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The Third ‘Fourth’ Is the Charm While I was dancing, another grad student […]
June 27, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Left Any Room She Entered’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Silent Empathy You were a businessman seated next to me on a flight. […]
June 20, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Wore an Orange Wig’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Rare Chance My oldest child and I drove from Massachusetts to New […]
June 13, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Between Black and White Boys’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Boyhood Memory, 64 Years Later Indiana, summer 1959: It was my first season […]
June 6, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Watched Him Kiss Someone New’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Half Full or Half Empty? I called him “Cup Guy” because in every […]
May 30, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Everyone Knew but Him’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Lucky There Isn’t Another Place I owned a small laundromat called “The Laundromat” […]
May 23, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Never Saw My Parents Kiss’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Blinking With Love Growing up in the ’50s, I never saw my parents […]
May 17, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Deeply in Love With a Polyamorous Woman’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. More than 30 Minutes Together Windows down, music blasting as we drive over […]