Before ‘Polyamory’ Was in Vogue Veronica’s prom date wanted to marry her, but I was her preference. Our honeymoon was nice but not exciting. After joining...
It’s been almost a year since Miranda July released her hit novel, “All Fours.” The novel features a woman in her mid-40s who heads out on...
My Only Advice Recently, my 28-year-old daughter called me seeking counsel on the state of her love life: How do I know if the person I’m...
I met Jacob at an overcrowded Abba-themed dance night. He was wearing a faux-fur head wrap. He seemed so young. I was 33. Still, I thought...
Tenderness and Grit A close friend died in 1999. After her funeral, grief’s full weight incapacitated me. My boyfriend led me into our cramped apartment bathroom...
Finding the Fun Mom, a former physicist, had a hard day with her dementia. She opened Zoom two hours early, asking repeatedly when her prayer meeting...
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Five years ago, Covid took hold and the world transformed almost overnight. As routines and rituals evaporated, often replaced by grief, fear and isolation, many of...
When Samaiya Mushtaq was growing up, she imagined marrying a kind Muslim man, and at 21, she did. But while studying to become a psychiatrist in...
Laura Sessions Stepp, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose reporting on teenage sex and “hookup” culture on college campuses explored in strikingly intimate detail how adolescent girls...
