Visits: 24 Life lessons from a 97-year-old lawyer of the old school. My wife and I unexpectedly lost our Brooklyn lease in the summer of 2022. With preposterous rents all around us, we decided to save money and postpone our …
When the Best Gift Costs Nothing at All
Visits: 41 In a season of high spirits and spirited spending, experts say focusing on sentiment over receipts is more likely to bring holiday cheer. On Christmas Eve in 2013, Elisa Stead, an American living abroad in Iceland, was ready …
¿Y si yo no hubiera estado para cuidarlos?
Visits: 26 Jamás creí que experimentaría la pena y la alegría de criar a tres niños pequeños, sola, a los 62 años. Grité a los niños para que se subieran al auto. Allie, de 6 años, se tomaba su tiempo, …
Young, Gay and Single Among the Nuns and Widows
Visits: 18 After graduating from college, I pictured myself scrolling through Grindr, not living with my grandmother. When I graduated from college in Portland, Ore., eight years ago, I dreamed of taking my Spanish major and spirit of adventure and …
What They Wanted
Visits: 22 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 interest in my love life. “I just want to be around long …
Modern Love: She Stood in for My Mother. Could I Do the Same for Her?
Visits: 60 I used to hate going clothes shopping with my grandmother. We would go to a store, pick out an array of jean skirts and sports bras, and head to the dressing rooms, where my siblings and I would …