My wife and I are in Cornwall, visiting friends. This has required us to do things we have not attempted in months: packing clothes, driving long distances, talking to people ...
Since the start of lockdown, my enemy the squirrel has sought to contravene social distancing guidelines in a manner that can only be described as provocative. For all of last ...
Last autumn, I fell in love for the first time in at least 20 years. That enormous feeling overwhelmed me like fall in New England or a natural disaster. I ...
Any time I try to make sense of my strong aversion to motherhood and my utter glee over having escaped it, my mind immediately turns to the “mother-daughter day” my ...
I remember when I was 10 and visiting the home of one of my mom’s friends. I asked on the drive over if she had kids I could play with. ...
After spending half of my life in a Texas prison, I learned how to make peace with locked doors. So when a global pandemic hit and the worldwide order to stay ...
After more than 15 years of online dating, Guardian Soulmates has come to an end. The service, providing a means for single Guardian readers to meet like-minded individuals, started as ...
It is the eye-rolling retort that Karens everywhere have come to know all too well: “OK, KAREN.” Yes, it is their given name – but on the internet, “Karen” has ...
When Sunil Gupta agreed to attend an HIV event in Delhi in 2009, he wasn’t expecting to meet his future husband. “I was diagnosed with HIV in 1995, and later ...
When I started this column in February there was no Covid-19. We know now there was, but it wasn’t yet our daily reality. I am a fiction writer, an Ivy ...
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