Cleaning up on the go, spotting dropped cash in Brooklyn and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan ...

Dear Diary combines the intimacy of a diary-like narrative with the writer’s own experiences, little and big, as well as politics and culture. In a letter to Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe ...

Longtime Austinite and creative community familiar Amalia Litsa opened her vegan coffee shop Dear Diary, part of a revitalized retail strip near the corner of 12th & Chicon, just as the COVID-19 ...

In today's Dear Annie column, Annie Lane offers advice to a reader in an unhappy marriage who wants to leave but worries how it will affect their young children.

When I began writing about the 1916 Rising through the eyes of a child, the diary format felt a natural fit. Dublin was crammed with writers in 1916, famous and obscure, dashing down their ...

Dear Annie: I just read the letter from the mother whose son is being bullied at school and on a sports team. She says the other boy’s parents dismiss it with a “kids will be kids” attitude ...

Advice Dear Abby: My kids are visiting and my ex won’t let me see them because she paid for their flights Published: Apr. 20, 2025, 4:00 a.m.

Staying together only for the children may feel noble, but it can also be damaging -- especially if your home becomes a place filled with silence, resentment or emotional distance.

DEAR ABBY: I have been divorced from my ex-husband, “Cliff,” for a year and a half. My nearly adult children live with me. They rarely see their dad. Our divorce was relatively painless, but ...

DEAR ANNIE: I’m at a crossroads in my marriage, and I don’t know what to do. My husband and I barely talk anymore unless it’s about the kids or logistics. There’s no connection, no ...

Dear Abby advises a man who’s girlfriend is angry at him for spending money on his kids.