A conversation with an adult child can feel, from the child’s side, a lot like a phone call with a weather check attached. There is
A batch of old photos went around our family WhatsApp group recently. Most of them were of me and my siblings — bad haircuts, worse
Ask an adult in their thirties or forties why they feel close to their parents. The answers tend to be vague, a little circular, and
Thought of the day, often attributed to the actor Tom Hardy: “Slowly losing friends is a part of growing up. We don’t lose friends; we
I grew up in long, shapeless summers spent almost entirely outside, under one rule I can still hear: be home by dark. Nobody planned my
Something that comes up consistently when adult children describe what kept them close to their parents over decades is not what you might expect. Not
Some grown children call their parents the way they call a close friend — to share something that happened, to pass on a small observation,
Over the past few years, in conversations with parents of adult children, I’ve been asking roughly the same question: what was the hardest part of
There’s a moment I see playing out in parks now that I don’t remember from when I was a child. A parent says it’s time
I was feeling nostalgic so I typed a prompt into ChatGPT. The exact words were: “I am feeling nostalgic. Remind me of my 1990s childhood
A few months ago, I watched a child cry over a board game. She was nine. She had lost to her younger sister, and the
Ask anyone over thirty-five how they found their favourite band, and watch their face change. They don’t recite a playlist. They tell you a story.
