LifeAn unexpected ally in therapy: my patient’s dogI knew my patient loved her dog, writes Oona Metz. But I didn't anticipate how important the dog would become to me.Mar 14, 2024No, Alexa, don’t curate my news for meWe live in the age of algorithmic everything, writes Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. But, of all the things we’ve allowed the algorithm to manage — movies, music, and shopping — news...Mar 13, 2024I found love after divorce. But I could only change so much about myselfWhen you form a new relationship as an older person, you have the chance to choose how you’re going to live, writes Henriette Lazaridis. I had the zany idea to...Mar 8, 2024At the end of my mother's life, I could finally see herLiz Vago’s relationship with her mother was flipped. For decades, I was the responsible one and she was the impulsive one, Vago writes. I didn’t appreciate her outsized joy for...Mar 1, 2024I was the first baby born via IVF in the U.S. For the first time in my 42 years, ‘I feel like an endangered species’No one understands better than the infertility community that embryos are not children, writes Elizabeth Carr. Success in IVF means bringing home a baby, not solely creating embryos. Resume03:56Feb 26, 2024AdvertisementWhy our family still makes time for church on SundaysWe are drifting away from one another, writes Amy Julia Becker. And from the institutions that connect us — institutions like church — even though we desperately need them.Feb 23, 2024My brother died in a car accident decades ago. Now I’m teaching my son to driveKevin’s death forever scarred my parents, my surviving older brother and me, writes Linda K. Wertheimer. I’m determined not to pass on that scar to my son. Feb 20, 2024Montreal knows how to winter. Boston could learnBostonians talk about innovation a lot. And yet, writes Miles Howard, for all the local advances we’ve made in medicine and technology, we still haven’t been able to figure out...Feb 16, 2024One-way streets, the T and hip-hop on the radio. Your letters to BostonWhat are the snapshot moments that make Boston home? Is it navigating a maze of one-way streets from memory? Walking through Forest Hills Cemetery with a giant iced Dunkin’? Memories...Resume07:40Feb 14, 2024First I fell in love with romance novels. Then I wrote oneLove stories fill a void, writes Lindsay Hameroff. They make us laugh. They make us swoon. They give us that much-needed rush of optimism and remind us that, even in...Feb 13, 2024We cried for Tracy Chapman. And all our small towns and fast carsI did not come from a fast car family, but I came of age around fast car boys who drag raced on quarter-mile stretches of highway, writes Susan Donovan Bernhard....Feb 8, 2024Finding ‘the real thing’ with U2 at SphereI had no way of knowing that as The Edge strummed the arpeggios of “Where The Streets Have No Name,” I would experience something entirely new, writes Sara Schreur. And...Feb 2, 2024It took me a long time to find ‘the country of happiness.’ Now I want everyone to join meI wanted anyone who’d ever struggled with mental illness to know they had options, writes Shalene Gupta. The journey to better isn’t always easy or guaranteed, but it’s worth making.Jan 31, 2024I’m an adult with autism. I built a team to help me make decisionsSupported decision-making or SDM is an alternative to adult guardianship for people with a cognitive or intellectual disability, writes Jonathan Gardner. With SDM, I’m the CEO of my life. Rather...Jan 18, 2024I love you anyway, MBTAMaybe in this age of increased polarization and decreased civic participation, an age of increased road deaths and social isolation, taking mass transit is a positive way we can all...Jan 17, 2024At Boston Children’s Chorus, creating the world I want to live in: joy, love and ‘true colors’The value I've taken from my experience as a musician, and the confidence, skill and fluency of language I’ve built, it all makes me feel proud showing up exactly as...Jan 12, 2024When mid-life feels like a series of impending catastrophes — ‘remember this’Like most people in their 50s, I’m no stranger to loss, writes T.M. Blanchet. Goodbyes are inevitable. But for the love of all things holy, does it really have to...Jan 5, 2024Best-of lists are great, ‘but have you heard about this?’Part of what can make a book seem so good is a feeling of discovery, of surprise, writes Hannah Harlow, an independent bookseller. ‘Tis the season of “best-of” lists, and...Dec 18, 2023There’s no roadmap for being an adult with a disability. So I’m making my ownI wanted to live alone, go to college and find a girlfriend, writes Samuel Habib. I asked some of the most famous disability advocates for advice. Dec 13, 2023Rosalynn Carter helped me, and thousands of other Cambodian refugees, surviveSoreath Hok was born in a Cambodian refugee camp after her family, like thousands of others, fled the fall of the Khmer Rouge. They survived because of the groundwork laid...Dec 1, 2023Next Page
An unexpected ally in therapy: my patient’s dogI knew my patient loved her dog, writes Oona Metz. But I didn't anticipate how important the dog would become to me.Mar 14, 2024
No, Alexa, don’t curate my news for meWe live in the age of algorithmic everything, writes Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. But, of all the things we’ve allowed the algorithm to manage — movies, music, and shopping — news...Mar 13, 2024
I found love after divorce. But I could only change so much about myselfWhen you form a new relationship as an older person, you have the chance to choose how you’re going to live, writes Henriette Lazaridis. I had the zany idea to...Mar 8, 2024
At the end of my mother's life, I could finally see herLiz Vago’s relationship with her mother was flipped. For decades, I was the responsible one and she was the impulsive one, Vago writes. I didn’t appreciate her outsized joy for...Mar 1, 2024
I was the first baby born via IVF in the U.S. For the first time in my 42 years, ‘I feel like an endangered species’No one understands better than the infertility community that embryos are not children, writes Elizabeth Carr. Success in IVF means bringing home a baby, not solely creating embryos. Resume03:56Feb 26, 2024
Why our family still makes time for church on SundaysWe are drifting away from one another, writes Amy Julia Becker. And from the institutions that connect us — institutions like church — even though we desperately need them.Feb 23, 2024
My brother died in a car accident decades ago. Now I’m teaching my son to driveKevin’s death forever scarred my parents, my surviving older brother and me, writes Linda K. Wertheimer. I’m determined not to pass on that scar to my son. Feb 20, 2024
Montreal knows how to winter. Boston could learnBostonians talk about innovation a lot. And yet, writes Miles Howard, for all the local advances we’ve made in medicine and technology, we still haven’t been able to figure out...Feb 16, 2024
One-way streets, the T and hip-hop on the radio. Your letters to BostonWhat are the snapshot moments that make Boston home? Is it navigating a maze of one-way streets from memory? Walking through Forest Hills Cemetery with a giant iced Dunkin’? Memories...Resume07:40Feb 14, 2024
First I fell in love with romance novels. Then I wrote oneLove stories fill a void, writes Lindsay Hameroff. They make us laugh. They make us swoon. They give us that much-needed rush of optimism and remind us that, even in...Feb 13, 2024
We cried for Tracy Chapman. And all our small towns and fast carsI did not come from a fast car family, but I came of age around fast car boys who drag raced on quarter-mile stretches of highway, writes Susan Donovan Bernhard....Feb 8, 2024
Finding ‘the real thing’ with U2 at SphereI had no way of knowing that as The Edge strummed the arpeggios of “Where The Streets Have No Name,” I would experience something entirely new, writes Sara Schreur. And...Feb 2, 2024
It took me a long time to find ‘the country of happiness.’ Now I want everyone to join meI wanted anyone who’d ever struggled with mental illness to know they had options, writes Shalene Gupta. The journey to better isn’t always easy or guaranteed, but it’s worth making.Jan 31, 2024
I’m an adult with autism. I built a team to help me make decisionsSupported decision-making or SDM is an alternative to adult guardianship for people with a cognitive or intellectual disability, writes Jonathan Gardner. With SDM, I’m the CEO of my life. Rather...Jan 18, 2024
I love you anyway, MBTAMaybe in this age of increased polarization and decreased civic participation, an age of increased road deaths and social isolation, taking mass transit is a positive way we can all...Jan 17, 2024
At Boston Children’s Chorus, creating the world I want to live in: joy, love and ‘true colors’The value I've taken from my experience as a musician, and the confidence, skill and fluency of language I’ve built, it all makes me feel proud showing up exactly as...Jan 12, 2024
When mid-life feels like a series of impending catastrophes — ‘remember this’Like most people in their 50s, I’m no stranger to loss, writes T.M. Blanchet. Goodbyes are inevitable. But for the love of all things holy, does it really have to...Jan 5, 2024
Best-of lists are great, ‘but have you heard about this?’Part of what can make a book seem so good is a feeling of discovery, of surprise, writes Hannah Harlow, an independent bookseller. ‘Tis the season of “best-of” lists, and...Dec 18, 2023
There’s no roadmap for being an adult with a disability. So I’m making my ownI wanted to live alone, go to college and find a girlfriend, writes Samuel Habib. I asked some of the most famous disability advocates for advice. Dec 13, 2023
Rosalynn Carter helped me, and thousands of other Cambodian refugees, surviveSoreath Hok was born in a Cambodian refugee camp after her family, like thousands of others, fled the fall of the Khmer Rouge. They survived because of the groundwork laid...Dec 1, 2023