2+ week, 6+ day ago   (211+ words) However, is there such a thing as unhealthy friendship turnover? I spoke with a therapist about the difference between natural friendship turnover and a toxic pattern of constantly replacing friends. Friendship turnover describes the process of losing friends and gaining…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (621+ words) Molly and Sean Morse agree that they want their 5-year-old daughter to be ready for the AI future. By night they’re tech-free, telling stories with her, building fantasy worlds and characters and letting her imagination roam. Then in the morning,…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (1139+ words) For several years, Nicole Straight and Patricia Wood, who lived across the street in Sausalito, Calif., were neighbors more than friends, exchanging sociable greetings and occasionally having coffee. Then, last October, Ms. Wood took a fall, broke her neck and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (549+ words) I suppose I should note that it’s been a rough year and a half in Minnesota. In June of 2025, the Twin Cities awoke to the news that overnight, a shooter had assassinated a Minnesota state representative, Melissa Hortman, and her…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (673+ words) I remember my last drink clearly. I looked at my kids and had a thought I couldn’t shake. Why was I choosing to slow myself down with alcohol? What was the drink accomplishing? Was it making the afternoon better, or…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (318+ words) I grew up in a politically conservative Orthodox Jewish community that taught its members that gay marriage should be illegal — and that a religious gay marriage was a contradiction in terms. My parents learned I was a lesbian when I…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (151+ words) That’s why the act of engaging with written texts — the basis of our cultural, political and intellectual life for over 500 years — is not coming to an end. It’s changing to meet new needs by offering the kinds of experiences digital…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (322+ words) I grew up in a politically conservative Orthodox Jewish community that taught its members that gay marriage should be illegal — and that a religious gay marriage was a contradiction in terms. My parents learned I was a lesbian when I…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago   (905+ words) My husband looked at the towels spread across our back porch. “Why paper making?” My 13-year-old didn’t even hesitate. “Paper is so cheap,” he said. I had spent nearly two hours on my knees on the hot concrete, scooping watery…...