Balancing Caution and Optimism

Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. We’re holding two facts in our minds these days: In some places, virus cases are rising; across the U.S., cases are up by about 20 percent from two weeks ago. Meanwhile, people are getting vaccinated, and the CDC has reported that the…

21 Easy Easter Dinner Recipes

After cooking three meals day after day for an entire year, no one feels like spending hours in the kitchen whipping up an Easter feast, but eating handfuls of chocolate eggs and jelly beans doesn’t feel quite right either. These easy Easter dinner recipes, most of which come together in an hour or less, are…

The Yes Is Making Shopping Social Again

The Yes The Yes Having thoroughly cleansed my wardrobe of anything that didn’t quite spark joy over the last 12 months, I dare say I feel a bit like shopping again. But with vaccine appointments hard to come by, the thought of perusing the spring arrivals indoors doesn’t exactly appeal. Online shopping is of course…

Why You Should Plant Oaks

When I arrived years ago at the piece of land I now garden, I saw it as a blank canvas and set about madly planting things, imagining my efforts would bring every square foot to life. I did not understand then that the heavy lifting had already been done — and probably by some blue…

In Empty Amsterdam, Reconsidering Tourism

Support for the prostitutes and coffee shop owners was echoed in several interviews with Amsterdam residents, including Roy Van Kempen, a 31-year-old marketing manager who has lived in Amsterdam since 2008. “Paris has the Eiffel Tower, and we have the Red Light District and this idea that everything is possible in Amsterdam. And I would…

Lil Nas X, Clapback Champ

One after another, they came with venom for Lil Nas X. The basketball star Nick Young. The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem. The rapper Joyner Lucas. Candace Owens and various right-wing Twitter personalities. Greg Locke, a Tennessee pastor. Fox News. Nike. They were clueless. Blissful, almost — lambs blind to the slaughter they were…