In January 2018, I was commuting from Brooklyn to New Jersey. I have two little kids and a busy consulting business, so a quiet train ride felt like a mini-vacation. Yet I found myself spending that ...

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Most of our ideas don’t arrive fully formed, well-polished, or at the best time. You can sit at your desk staring at a blank page, and the moment you stand up to grab a sip of juice from the fridge, ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What do you do when the duty to write thank-you notes overwhelms any genuine sense of gratitude? In my own upbringing, reciprocity and eagerness to give were prized over the finer ...

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Like a lot of people staying at home all these months, I’ve been doing some COVID cleaning, digging through drawers and boxes and pulling out musty papers. I’ve found thank you notes my children wrote ...

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PRE-CELLPHONE Briana Loewinsohn’s latest book, ‘Raised by Ghosts,’ harkens back to her youth spent passing notes to friends in Oakland in the ’80s and ’90s. (Photos courtesy of Fantagraphics) Briana ...