Modern Love
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Sunday Modern Love: A Taoist Moment
Today’s Modern Love column in the Sunday NYT is a beautiful reflection by a pregnant woman, Rhonda Kaysen, on whether or not to have an abortion. The possibility of a child has emerged at the wrong time: they… Continue reading
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Still Against Valentine’s Day
We’re getting ready for a big snow storm here (I ran out today to buy a new snow blower to replace my broken one). Tomorrow will be taken up with digging out and trying to do what is… Continue reading
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Modern Love: Another Taoist Parent
I have blogged before on Taoist parenting and I have found a new example. Although she may not intend to be, Suzanna Paola, writing today’s NYT "Modern Love" column, comes pretty close to being a Taoist parent. … Continue reading
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Modern Love: Fade to Black
A beautiful piece this week by Patty Dann. She recounts her husband’s diagnosis of, and ultimate death from, a rare brain cancer. There is a deep sadness in the story, but an elegant wisdom as well. Dann does an… Continue reading
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Letting Go
A haunting story in yesterday’s Modern Love column in the NYT. Katherine Friedman recounts an airplane mishap – a scary plunge, the oxygen masks come down, a crash seems imminent – that suddenly reverses, leaving her and her… Continue reading
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Modern Love: Learning the Limits
A sad yet beautiful column today by Wendy Paris. It is sad because it chronicles her two miscarriages. She had waited to try to have children, waited for her career to take shape, for her relationships to sort out,… Continue reading
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Sperms and Fathers and Ashes
Two stories today about fatherhood and family. The first is the Sunday Modern Love column in the NYT, by Victoria Loustalot, in which she reflects upon her gay father, who left the family and then died when she… Continue reading
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Modern Love: Kidneys and Commitments
I have not blogged the NYT Sunday Modern Love column is a while, but today’s is too good to ignore. Angela Balcita writes a marvelous piece about her health problems and how they bring the best… Continue reading
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Modern Love: Late-Onset Fatherhood
Rand Richard Cooper has a nice piece in Sunday’s NYT "Modern Love"column on being an older father. He was 46 when his wife, nine years his junior, became pregnant with their first child. Many questions popped into his… Continue reading
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Modern Love: The Form of this Body
This week’s "Modern Love" column is a very poignant piece, by Jennifer Glaser, reflecting on her boy friend’s untimely death. He was dying of leukemia and they made love as they could until the illness separated them… Continue reading
The Useless Tree 