LifeWhen I lost my best friend, his favorite band helped me mournDave’s death left a hole in me, but learning the songs of his favorite band became a way of mourning, writes Simón Rios. The Grateful Dead gave us a platform...Apr 26, 2024‘Chasing joy’ with Maggie Rogers and 400 strangersFor the longest time, joy felt like a ghost of the past, writes Nina Sharma. Then we took a collective deep breath, and began to sing. Apr 18, 2024After my sister died, I found refuge in my running sneakersAfter Abby Salois’s sister died by suicide, she just wanted to hide. But with a career and young children, she couldn’t. Instead, Salois writes, “I learned to hide inside a...Apr 16, 2024My time with the Scrabble kings of LiberiaLike many refugees adrift in the world today, the Liberians Sasha Chanoff met in Ivory Coast were not allowed to work, and for most there was no school. With nothing...Apr 11, 2024Running is everything to me. What if it’s time to say goodbye?Jason Clemence ran 24,733 miles between June 2008 and January 2024. And then, he couldn't run anymore. It's hard to know what to do when the thing that brought you...Apr 3, 2024AdvertisementWhy fairy tales are still essentialOver time, I’ve come to accept myself as someone who craves a fairy tale, even as an adult, writes Mark Cecil. Whether “The Alchemist,” Tolkien or a talking octopus, we’re...Mar 29, 2024What the Kate Middleton story says about usIt's easy to talk about a photoshopped picture or an alleged affair and to demand more information, writes Ellen Braaten. It's much harder to discuss the fears of a mother...Mar 27, 2024My mother's family survived the Holocaust. Now I’m finding faith on my own termsFor most of her life, Diane Forman felt like a religious misfit. Then she moved to a new town after her divorce and joined a church.Mar 22, 2024Let’s hear it for the fun unclesThe word “funcle” describes a particularly beloved fun uncle, one with that perfect blend of fun, good-natured mischief and a capacity for unconditional love, writes David Tanklefsky. Mine was named...Mar 20, 2024An unexpected ally in therapy: my patient’s dogI knew my patient loved her dog, writes Oona Metz. But I didn't anticipate how important the dog would become to me.Mar 14, 2024No, Alexa, don’t curate my news for meWe live in the age of algorithmic everything, writes Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. But, of all the things we’ve allowed the algorithm to manage — movies, music, and shopping — news...Mar 13, 2024I found love after divorce. But I could only change so much about myselfWhen you form a new relationship as an older person, you have the chance to choose how you’re going to live, writes Henriette Lazaridis. I had the zany idea to...Mar 8, 2024At the end of my mother's life, I could finally see herLiz Vago’s relationship with her mother was flipped. For decades, I was the responsible one and she was the impulsive one, Vago writes. I didn’t appreciate her outsized joy for...Mar 1, 2024I was the first baby born via IVF in the U.S. For the first time in my 42 years, ‘I feel like an endangered species’No one understands better than the infertility community that embryos are not children, writes Elizabeth Carr. Success in IVF means bringing home a baby, not solely creating embryos. Resume03:56Feb 26, 2024Why our family still makes time for church on SundaysWe are drifting away from one another, writes Amy Julia Becker. And from the institutions that connect us — institutions like church — even though we desperately need them.Feb 23, 2024My brother died in a car accident decades ago. Now I’m teaching my son to driveKevin’s death forever scarred my parents, my surviving older brother and me, writes Linda K. Wertheimer. I’m determined not to pass on that scar to my son. Feb 20, 2024Montreal knows how to winter. Boston could learnBostonians talk about innovation a lot. And yet, writes Miles Howard, for all the local advances we’ve made in medicine and technology, we still haven’t been able to figure out...Feb 16, 2024One-way streets, the T and hip-hop on the radio. Your letters to BostonWhat are the snapshot moments that make Boston home? Is it navigating a maze of one-way streets from memory? Walking through Forest Hills Cemetery with a giant iced Dunkin’? Memories...Resume07:40Feb 14, 2024First I fell in love with romance novels. Then I wrote oneLove stories fill a void, writes Lindsay Hameroff. They make us laugh. They make us swoon. They give us that much-needed rush of optimism and remind us that, even in...Feb 13, 2024We cried for Tracy Chapman. And all our small towns and fast carsI did not come from a fast car family, but I came of age around fast car boys who drag raced on quarter-mile stretches of highway, writes Susan Donovan Bernhard....Feb 8, 2024Next Page
When I lost my best friend, his favorite band helped me mournDave’s death left a hole in me, but learning the songs of his favorite band became a way of mourning, writes Simón Rios. The Grateful Dead gave us a platform...Apr 26, 2024
‘Chasing joy’ with Maggie Rogers and 400 strangersFor the longest time, joy felt like a ghost of the past, writes Nina Sharma. Then we took a collective deep breath, and began to sing. Apr 18, 2024
After my sister died, I found refuge in my running sneakersAfter Abby Salois’s sister died by suicide, she just wanted to hide. But with a career and young children, she couldn’t. Instead, Salois writes, “I learned to hide inside a...Apr 16, 2024
My time with the Scrabble kings of LiberiaLike many refugees adrift in the world today, the Liberians Sasha Chanoff met in Ivory Coast were not allowed to work, and for most there was no school. With nothing...Apr 11, 2024
Running is everything to me. What if it’s time to say goodbye?Jason Clemence ran 24,733 miles between June 2008 and January 2024. And then, he couldn't run anymore. It's hard to know what to do when the thing that brought you...Apr 3, 2024
Why fairy tales are still essentialOver time, I’ve come to accept myself as someone who craves a fairy tale, even as an adult, writes Mark Cecil. Whether “The Alchemist,” Tolkien or a talking octopus, we’re...Mar 29, 2024
What the Kate Middleton story says about usIt's easy to talk about a photoshopped picture or an alleged affair and to demand more information, writes Ellen Braaten. It's much harder to discuss the fears of a mother...Mar 27, 2024
My mother's family survived the Holocaust. Now I’m finding faith on my own termsFor most of her life, Diane Forman felt like a religious misfit. Then she moved to a new town after her divorce and joined a church.Mar 22, 2024
Let’s hear it for the fun unclesThe word “funcle” describes a particularly beloved fun uncle, one with that perfect blend of fun, good-natured mischief and a capacity for unconditional love, writes David Tanklefsky. Mine was named...Mar 20, 2024
An unexpected ally in therapy: my patient’s dogI knew my patient loved her dog, writes Oona Metz. But I didn't anticipate how important the dog would become to me.Mar 14, 2024
No, Alexa, don’t curate my news for meWe live in the age of algorithmic everything, writes Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. But, of all the things we’ve allowed the algorithm to manage — movies, music, and shopping — news...Mar 13, 2024
I found love after divorce. But I could only change so much about myselfWhen you form a new relationship as an older person, you have the chance to choose how you’re going to live, writes Henriette Lazaridis. I had the zany idea to...Mar 8, 2024
At the end of my mother's life, I could finally see herLiz Vago’s relationship with her mother was flipped. For decades, I was the responsible one and she was the impulsive one, Vago writes. I didn’t appreciate her outsized joy for...Mar 1, 2024
I was the first baby born via IVF in the U.S. For the first time in my 42 years, ‘I feel like an endangered species’No one understands better than the infertility community that embryos are not children, writes Elizabeth Carr. Success in IVF means bringing home a baby, not solely creating embryos. Resume03:56Feb 26, 2024
Why our family still makes time for church on SundaysWe are drifting away from one another, writes Amy Julia Becker. And from the institutions that connect us — institutions like church — even though we desperately need them.Feb 23, 2024
My brother died in a car accident decades ago. Now I’m teaching my son to driveKevin’s death forever scarred my parents, my surviving older brother and me, writes Linda K. Wertheimer. I’m determined not to pass on that scar to my son. Feb 20, 2024
Montreal knows how to winter. Boston could learnBostonians talk about innovation a lot. And yet, writes Miles Howard, for all the local advances we’ve made in medicine and technology, we still haven’t been able to figure out...Feb 16, 2024
One-way streets, the T and hip-hop on the radio. Your letters to BostonWhat are the snapshot moments that make Boston home? Is it navigating a maze of one-way streets from memory? Walking through Forest Hills Cemetery with a giant iced Dunkin’? Memories...Resume07:40Feb 14, 2024
First I fell in love with romance novels. Then I wrote oneLove stories fill a void, writes Lindsay Hameroff. They make us laugh. They make us swoon. They give us that much-needed rush of optimism and remind us that, even in...Feb 13, 2024
We cried for Tracy Chapman. And all our small towns and fast carsI did not come from a fast car family, but I came of age around fast car boys who drag raced on quarter-mile stretches of highway, writes Susan Donovan Bernhard....Feb 8, 2024