Rachel Stevens, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, saw firsthand how female salmon die for their children during salmon spawning season in Seattle, but she didn’t realize that it would be the first of many lessons in motherhood. As she embarked on her own journey, she too would have to selflessly sacrifice herself…
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There are some people who collapse on the couch after Thanksgiving and don’t get up for hours, or even days. And then there are the people who treat the whole holiday weekend as a cooking and baking marathon, using up leftovers and pivoting right into cookie baking. (Speaking of: Sign up for Your Daily Cookie,…
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Good morning. This is where Thanksgiving gets great: a bespoke leftovers sandwich (above) eaten in the quiet of a house that was recently crowded and noisy, maybe with a glass of whole milk or one of kombucha, depending on your point of view, or with a glass of chilled Beaujolais or icy lager, depending on…
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Ms. Schumacher said that she spent the next decade preparing her channel for Yeshua. She meditated daily, cut out sugar and caffeine, and limited her diet to five foods: broccoli, cauliflower, turkey, chicken and watermelon. “If someone’s channel is diluted,” she said, “there’s a kind of film or gunk that the energy gets stuck in…
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Even though the first few days of college were a blur for Neil Mahesh Chitrao, one moment in particular stands out: when he met Aastha Wadhwa during the convocation ceremony for the Cornell undergraduate class of 2017. “I remember introducing myself to Aastha, and my first impression was that she was very self-confident and very…
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Walter Smith-Randolph said he was interested in LeAnne Armstead from the moment he met her at a 2005 barbecue hosted by Villanova University’s Black Cultural Society. But it was a long, long, long time before anything came of it. “I was 12 years a friend,” he said. The two became friendly, a little closer than…
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He went on to share what he knew about me. “Dinushka has been a kind, loving, caring and thoughtful child, and she has found an equally kind, loving, caring and thoughtful partner in Nikkya,” he said. Her father’s words suggested that he saw me, his daughter-in-law, the same way he saw his daughter. My mouth…
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Eating, or rather being able to eat whatever you like, whether sumptuous or spartan, can be a means of exerting control. Sometimes this manifests as culinary tourism, dabbling in the foods of other cultures or classes, with the assurance of knowing you can always retreat to the safety of your own. I’ve never forgotten a…
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During the months when you can’t be outside working in the garden, what could be better than a miniature landscape that sits in your living room? Just remember, as you put the finishing touches on your first terrarium and celebrate by cuing the chorus of “It’s a Small World (After All)”: This is a tiny…
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The American Museum of Natural History raised about $3 million at its annual fall gala on Nov. 18, with 450 guests dining under the big blue whale in the Hall of Ocean Life. As usual, there was a large contingent of “Saturday Night Live” cast members. (Lorne Michaels, the show’s longtime producer, sits on the…
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