Hits: 14 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. News After the Jewish New Year I mailed my former therapist a Rosh Hashana card but never expected a reply. My heart leaped when I …
How Quitting a Job Changed My Personal Finances
Hits: 9 We asked people who quit their jobs during the “Great Resignation” what sort of financial challenges it brought. This is what they told us. Melody and Ian Karle were not happy. It was February 2021, and the couple …
Sorry, Summer
Hits: 20 Timothy Hale had high hopes for this summer. “Last summer was a tease,” said the 29-year-old hairstylist and freelance photographer, who goes by Tim Hell professionally. “I was hoping this would be the summer I could finally have …
The Age of Distracti-pression
Hits: 14 If you’re wondering which pills and how many of them Americans have relied upon to make ourselves feel better since Covid-19 arrived, the answer, in short, is yes. “I should have gone back on medication sooner in the …
You’re Not Imagining It: The Pandemic Is Making Your Hair Fall Out
Hits: 18 With every month that passed in 2020, Samantha Hill’s part seemed to widen, the increasingly bald stripe of skin a representation of what she calls “a four-part terrible play” in her life. Reeling from the death of her …
New Year, Same Quarantine
Hits: 22 Take control. If you feel as if you’re a hostage to the pandemic, well, that’s because it does have one thing in common with actually being held captive. It presents a fundamentally uncertain fate, said Emma Kavanagh, a …
How To Avoid Election Stress
Hits: 25 From the droves of people voting by mail to the widespread protests for racial justice to the pandemic and worries about the electoral process itself, the 2020 election cycle provides “a recipe for a lot of angst” on …
Seeking a Partner for the End of the World
Hits: 37 It should be no surprise that the coronavirus has changed dating in America. Many experts, along with daters themselves, say that daters have become more likely to couple up, to lower their standards and to do what they …
Mother’s Little Helper is Back, and Daddy’s Partaking Too
Hits: 42 7:51 p.m.: It’s exactly 125 days tomorrow. I am pretg drink. 7:52 p.m.: Drunk. 7:52 p.m. I can tell. ? I have a yearslong WhatsApp message group with a handful of fellow mothers of small children from across …