January 5, 2024

In a Downtown New York Tradition, Cleansing the New Year With Poetry

On the first day of the year, over a thousand devotees passed through the old church where the Poetry Project has held its annual 12-hour marathon […]
January 2, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It All Began So Innocently’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Falling Upward It all began so innocently: snow falling at dusk, a crackling […]
December 29, 2023

On New Year’s Eve, Count Down for 2024 Any Time You Like

It’s probably midnight somewhere, right? To welcome 2024 the Children’s Museum of Manhattan is hosting a big New Year’s Eve party, where a D.J. will be […]
November 18, 2023

Holiday Preset: Focusing on Self-Care Before the Festivities

Some people are pulling back — in socializing, spending, eating — not to avoid Covid, but to bolster their mental health. Right after Halloween, Ashley Guerra […]
January 14, 2023

Happy New Year. Now Please Stay Home.

Sniffles, coughs and sneezes have become January’s familiar cacophony. Julie Vadnal was visiting family in Michigan over Christmas when everyone “started to drop like flies,” she […]
January 7, 2023

13 Predictions for the Trends We’ll See in 2023

What trends will the year bring? Take a guess. Oh, the possibilities of a new year. This will be the one, we say, when we’ll exercise […]
January 3, 2023

Fireworks, Dancing and a Frozen Duck: How We Rang In 2023

Seven writers describe how they started the new year with celebrations big and small. A few days before the earth completed its latest orbit of the […]
December 31, 2022

New Year’s Eve 2023: The State of the Midnight Kiss

Has our modern era dimmed the appeal of making out with a stranger, or are people still eager to participate in the New Year’s Eve tradition? […]
December 31, 2022

Day 31: How The Times Started a Beloved Tradition, in 10 … 9 … 8 …

I have a confession to make. It took me an embarrassing number of years working at The New York Times, in Times Square, before someone finally […]
December 30, 2022

December Birthdays: A Curse, or an Unexpected Blessing?

Those who were born in late December are often met with well-meaning pity when they tell people their birth date. Isn’t it hard, they’re asked, to […]