The Meaning of Our Deathbed Visions
As Shirley was dying, she kept seeing the grandmother she’d lost long ago.
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Genre: Life
“Billy & Molly” & My Little Son
In the waning days of a tumultuous year, as a weary, worried parent contemplating the uncertain future, I have found myself turning — again — to the story of a…
This Is Going to be Your Year
A journey through the fancy day planners that promise to fix our broken, millennial lives.
Raising Children in an Imperiled World
How climate experts think about raising the children who will inherit a planet in crisis.
The Next Hundred Years
It opened here 100 Decembers ago under the name Nichols & Warner, on this same street in a different world. Two years after the Titanic sank, five months after the…
All the Many Parts
After a family tragedy, can anything save Nichols Hardware? The Washington Post Magazine, April 24, 2011
Hereafter
What does it mean to create new life when one parent is dying? There are countless parents who don’t live to see their children grow up, but most of those…
The Way Forward
The judge helped a quadriplegic man become a lawyer. Could he help her recover from a catastrophic fall? A finalist for the 2016 Livingston Award for Young Journalists
Lydia Millet’s Memory of Life
A review of author Lydia Millet’s ‘We Loved It All,’ an extraordinary elegy to the natural world and a cautionary tale of what we risk losing in an age of…
The Call of Tokitae
After half a century in a tank, a beloved orca was about to be freed. Then her life ended, and a moment of reckoning began. A finalist for the 2024…