Advice
Close friendships with just a few people
An avocado sliced in thoughtful silence
No birthday party, just a couple of friends over for an intimate dinner of chickpeas and listening
An INTJ salmon
Beauty
In which our plucky cancer correspondent and her companion make difficult decisions about preserving his fertility.
Fitness
I did the workout.
Beauty
Laura Passin on the late Oliver Sacks, who helped her understand her mother's dementia.
Health
Kelly Davio's latest Waiting Room column for The Butter contrasts the reality of myasthenia gravis with the fiction advanced in the TV show 'Empire.'
Family
Christienna Fryar on her years as a competitive swimmer and the need for Black people to feel safe and welcomed at public swimming pools.
Health
The author on her time in a psych ward.
Cartoons & Comics
Christy Admiraal on how having a flawed, fictional hero like Hawkeye has helped her deal with her bipolar diagnosis.
Health
Emma Bolden on finding a name for her disability, and the ways in which it affects her everyday thoughts, actions, and perceptions.
Advice
Fifteen easy steps.
Health
In her latest Waiting Room column, Kelly Davio writes about the question so many people ask without thinking.
Beauty
One of our writers chronicles her boyfriend's unexpected and unwelcome diagnosis with a rare blood cancer.
Books
They are all good. Some achieve greatness.
Food
Kelly Davio's latest Waiting Room column for The Butter.
Books
I think the expression "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt" is sometimes overused, but it applies here.
