Love Letter: Was It Worth the Risk?

“In my head, David Schwimmer always said exactly the right thing. What if a real-life conversation didn’t measure up? Was it worth the risk? As strange as it sounds, there was a lot at stake,” Samantha Joseph writes in this week’s Modern Love essay. Find out how her imagined conversation with the actor from “Friends”…

Going Home and Going Big

Good morning. I’ve been on the road this week, eating in hotels and airport lounges, dreaming of live fires and barbecue pits, imagining myself cooking clams, baking bread, filleting tuna. All I want to do this weekend is cook: spiced lamb skewers with lemony onions (above); grilled asparagus with caper salsa; a sweet and spicy…