I am in need of new jeans. I haven’t purchased a pair since before the pandemic. I am looking for jeans that are in style and won’t be out in a year. What is the most sustainable approach to denim, in style, material and care? — Katherine, Northport, Ala. The irony of finding the perfect…
This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. In 2017, eight years after I discovered that my father had disinherited me, a FedEx driver stopped at my house to deliver an envelope. I didn’t know how to feel. Joyful? Relieved? Vindicated? I had already spent what felt…
This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. I didn’t grow up in a romantic household. My parents were more business partners than lovers, consumed with the day-to-day operation of our family bodega. They never touched affectionately, never said, “I love you.” Dad didn’t call Mom “honey.”…
This article is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. Have you ever had a flip remark about, say, a romantic partner’s late-night internet purchase devolve into a corrosive and existential fight? Me too. Online shopping is about money, and in our romantic relationships, a lot of us aren’t…
This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. In my mid-20s, I was close to broke. Not struggling-to-keep-the-lights-on-broke, but constantly-doing-basic-math-in-my-head-broke. I had some lingering bad debt that I’d been transferring between credit cards for years. My yearly income was under $20,000. In therapy (the cost of which…
My twisted logic told me that the more I gave Matty now, the more I could ask of him later, and there will, inevitably, come a time when I will need to ask for so much more help. It will be hard to ask for and, often, hard for Matty to give. My son, too,…
On the northern coast of Puerto Rico — about an hour’s drive west of San Juan, off a wisp of a road threaded through dense green foliage — there exists a long, empty beach that has haunted my dreams for years. On Google Maps, it appears as Punta Caracoles Beach, but I have always thought…
The Louvre Museum said it would raise its basic ticket price to 22 euros from 17 euros beginning next month in the latest sign that visitors may face higher costs ahead of next year’s Summer Olympics in Paris. The Louvre, which expects to have welcomed nearly 9 million visitors by the end of the year,…
Good morning. Remember when you weren’t that good at this business of preparing food for yourself, your family, your friends? It might have been when you were just a kid and didn’t know much more than how to heat a bagel in the toaster oven or to prepare an extra-dark glass of Ovaltine. It might…
“The holidays are meant to be a special time when you bring out your Christmas sweater — and why not your special watch?” asked Summer Anne Lee, a fashion historian and adjunct instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. “Seasonal watches are not over-the-top like the ugly Christmas sweaters,” she said. “But…