We met on a dating app: Bumble. It’s known for being the women’s app because, after a match, only women can send the first message. The rapport was instantaneous and we quickly escalated from in-app messaging to texting, to making plans to meet. We even talked on the phone once or twice. He seemed to […]

Speaking in omnivorous terms, you can’t have too many chocolate chip cookie recipes or burger recipes. I’d recommend adding this one to your repertoire of the latter because it’s easy and yields consistently juicy results. You needn’t be worried about the level of heat. Even though Sriracha is invoked in the recipe title, the hot […]

This cake’s name refers to some key ingredients the recipe doesn’t call for, which were rationed in America during World Wars I and II: butter, milk and eggs. But I like it for what it has aplenty: big chocolate flavor, a moist, fudgy crumb and one-pan ease. Healthful oil replaces the butter, making this version […]

It didn’t look like much: Just a little bag of brown grains. I whizzed them in the blender to make flour, then cooked up a batch of pancakes. They looked like pancakes. And tasted like them, too – though did I perhaps detect a hint of malt? I looked over at my 4-year-old, a precision […]

The 6-year-old girl turned to her mother and asked, “What does it mean to grab somebody by the p—y?” Rachael MacIsaac Parker thought she had misheard her daughter. “What?” she recalled responding. “What do you mean?” Then she saw the television screen. “You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them,” […]

Town officials in Kenai, Alaska — besieged with complaints about free-roaming felines and a burgeoning shelter cat population — are proposing a cat leash law. This news was reported recently in wonderful detail by the local paper, which cited a city attorney’s description of impolite cats “defecating on private property, invading plant beds, and otherwise […]

I hadn’t thought much about how many kids I wanted until my first was born. Immediately I was confronted with decisions: Should I get rid of my maternity clothes? Should I be saving these newborn onesies? My partner (now husband) and I pretty quickly decided we were all-in on the baby thing and we’d go […]

Q: I have three engraved brass tables that require a lot of effort to polish, and then they tarnish after a few weeks. I have used a kit that restores brass and protects it, but it did not last long. I have heard that spraying it with lacquer will protect the brass, but I am […]

It ought to be the simplest thing in the world. You go to sleep at night, you get up in the morning. Have some breakfast, brush your teeth and out the door you go, to your job, your classes or your chores. For millions of years, humans and their hairier ancestors have been doing it […]

First Lori Waltenbury’s dad got cancer, then her aunt did.On the days she went with them to treatment in the past year, Waltenbury considered her job part chauffeur, part distraction.During drives to the hospital and during sessions, she would start conversations about family or “the silly questionnaire” they filled out during treatment. Anything, she said, […]