
Connections
Voyages of imagination
Adventures await a grandfather who is helping to care for his 2-year-old grandson.
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Adventures await a grandfather who is helping to care for his 2-year-old grandson.
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Our relationship was destined to end, but walking away from my job was unexpectedly wrenching.
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After a loved one dies, the presents they’ve given become vessels for both immense grief and love.
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They met at college in 1969, and the resulting friendships have seen them through life’s ups and downs.
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Gathering her courage for a winter ritual.
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We adopted the Jamaica Plain watering hole as the boardroom for our friendship. What will we do now that it’s closing?
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It’s amazing how much of what your parents said comes back to you when you have your own children.
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Sharing shellfish — and making memories — with my mother.
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The rocker my nearly 90-year-old mother scored at an auction has a strange hold over me.
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The message-leavers always wonder: Do you remember me? This former teacher says: Always.
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Following a car accident, my fashionable sister’s life changed, and I gained wisdom from her example.
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Like the finches camped out on our porch, we needed to let our kids fly.
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We worried that my grandmother’s 100th birthday party would draw a small crowd. How happy we were to be wrong.
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Chatting and laughing, my mom and her old pals set an example that endures decades later.
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The letters stashed in an old desk stirred up painful memories — and reminders of my parents’ love.
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My bruised heart needed unconditional love. I found it on my phone, but not quite where I expected.
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My grandmother’s spirit stays with me decades later, especially at the breakfast table.
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His simple analogy helped me understand, and made having a brain that works differently seem cool.
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What does it take to get an aging rocker to part with his beloved vinyl records?
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After almost a quarter century, our goofy couple nicknames still have a nice ring to them.
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More than half a century later, the unbreakable bond between my dad and his uncle stays with me.
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We learned golf etiquette as early as we learned table manners, owned proper course attire, and mastered driving golf carts long before cars.
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We had protected him and cared for him, but for his new life to truly begin, we had to let him go.
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Fly fishing provided the occasional détente from the battlefield between daughter and father, and helped us nurture our precarious relationship.
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Unlike everyone else, my toddler son doesn’t know I have cancer — and that’s a relief.
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From a Tinder profile photo at the Marathon finish line to the altar, one step at a time.
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I ask — and ask and ask — until finally, in the dark where I can’t see her face, she tells me.
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Watching my son on the baseball field was frustrating — until I realized I had the game all wrong.
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We’re learning about schools she’s interested in attending — and, when she looks up from her phone, each other.
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This couple is still happily sharing costar billing after 35 years.
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Our marriage was mired in something far worse than a rough patch.
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Although he died when I was young, he lends a hand when I really need one.
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My lighthearted grandfather was in pain, and out of jokes. What could I do?
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I learned from my mother to be frugal with money — and affection. An unexpected expert helped me change my ways.
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We were so young when he died, but my older brother is always with me.
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My mother raised me to love Broadway shows. As her memory falters, can we still share that feeling?
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I was only a toddler when Aunt Brenda died, but she’s never far away.
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Winnowing down the possessions of a lifetime shows what really matters.
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My mother was gone, but I still felt her presence. A tale of martinis and coincidences.
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At 91, my mother already knew what I have only recently learned about the power of exercising in groups.
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During the most wonderful time of the year, sadness sometimes, somehow finds a way to creep in.
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My mother isn’t crazy about her profile, but I don’t mind mine — it reminds me of her.
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Sixty years later, Mom’s Christmas tablecloth captures our family history.
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Now that I am beginning to experience glimpses of the aging process, I feel the need to tell him what I’m going through.
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A lifetime after a brother’s death in Vietnam, looking for him in Washington — and finding him in Maine.
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Lessons from my father, a polio survivor, about living life with no regrets.
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All our lives, our mother made sure we were in the right place at the right time — together.
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A framed print of the composer had watched over generations of my piano-playing family. Would he ever come home with me?
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It took me three years to get my driver’s license as a teen. And now it’s my daughter’s turn.
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He shopped for them on his lunch break, and brought them home to expand my horizons.