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How to Have a Happy Retirement
Coming to terms with being alone is crucial. Solitude is an older person’s need, something that has to be built into a day like all the other…
Gerald Marzorati
Marty Goldensohn on Finding Late-in-Life Romance
‘It turns out that a key to aging is learning to live in a future that you did not see coming.’
Suzy Weiss
27M
He Was Falsely Accused of ‘Blackface.’ It Derailed His Life.
A California high school student’s life was forever changed when a picture of him wearing an acne mask went viral for all the wrong reasons. Five years…
Frannie Block
I’m Finally Hanging My American Flag
Growing up, I was taught to dislike the American flag and all that it represented. This year, for the first time, I hung one outside my house.
Larissa Phillips
The Secret of Good Grandparenting
Let your children be the parents they want to be, not the parents you want them to be.
Julie Rose
Julie Rose on the Dos and Don’ts of Grandparenting
The writer and her daughter discuss gentle parenting, generational differences, and giving grace along the way.
Suzy Weiss
25M
My Husband Wants to Be Cremated. I’d Ignore His Dying Wish.
‘The Mortician,’ HBO’s horrifying docuseries about a sociopathic undertaker, is proof that my family is right: Sitting up with a corpse is the best way…
River Page
I Was a Bad Dad. Then My Son Gave Me a Second Chance.
In my 30s, I wasn’t there for my three older kids. Then I had a fourth the year I turned 59, and he was my redemption staring me in the face.
Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera on Becoming a Better Dad
The Free Press editor on second chances, what fatherhood looks like at 73, and the inspiration for our Ancient Wisdom series.
Suzy Weiss
33M
Stop Striving and Have a Baby
Growing up rich in Manhattan, I was taught that becoming a parent meant your life was over. My baby daughter has taught me something else.
Nicholas Clairmont
I’m the CTO of Palantir. Today I Join the Army.
My father grew up in a mud hut in India. America gave him—and me—a life. Now technologists like me need to give back.
Shyam Sankar
The Surprising Pleasures of Widowhood
After my husband of 34 years died of dementia, my first emotion was ‘grie-lief.’ The next 15 years were better than I could have imagined.
Elinor Lipman
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