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On a warm Friday afternoon in February, Bianca Austin waits in her Airbnb in Gulfport, Mississippi, for a new friend to come by. “Hey, girl!” she says, jumping up from her chair as Katrina Mateen walks through the front door in a trenchcoat, her face framed by big sunglasses and a sparkly baseball hat. They hug like they’ve known each other for ages, though they only met last October, after police shot and killed Mateen’s son outside a nearby Family Dollar store. His birthday was earlier this week—he would have been 16—and she and Austin spent the prior night trying...

This past week I had dinner with an old friend. Our conversation evolved into a friendly discussion about the different economic and governing approaches of liberals versus conservatives. These days, the competing philosophical approaches appear nearly irreconcilable as each camp’s view of the world, culture, sociology, and politics are fundamentally different — although I have long believed the ideological spectrum is more circular than linear. While the desired outcome of the far left and the far right may differ, the functional means to their ends are similar, which typically means individual rights and liberties are subordinated to government power and control to...

A few weeks ago, I experienced a big milestone: for the first time, I am fully a stay-at-home mom without an additional job. Back in 2017 when I was pregnant with LJ, I decided to take a step back from teaching special education. After six full years in the classroom I was excited to transition to being stay-at-home mom and didn’t intend to find another job right away, but when the opportunity came to work part-time from home as a virtual administrative assistant pretty much right after the school year ended, I jumped at the chance. Working with baby LJ...

Hello! Happy summer Monday and the first full day of camp in my house. In a way, this feels like our first real summer with kids because the their daycare is year-round, so Amalia has a true summer break for the first time ever since Kindergarten ended. You would think that would mean all joy and excitement over here but she 1. is obsessed with school and 2. has a tough time with change of any kind (just like her mama). So although this is usually my favorite season of the year, it’s had a bit of a rocky start....

  CINDY ORD Jeff Koons Looks Back on a Life in the Art World T&C spoke to the artist in Qatar around the opening of a landmark new exhibition. BY PHYLLIS TUCHMANPUBLISHED: DEC 20, 2021 Lost in America, Jeff Koons’s current retrospective in Qatar, features 60-some sculptures and paintings. There are golden oldies like "Rabbit (1986)," "Buster Keaton (1988)," and "Balloon Dog (Orange) (1994-2000)" as well as newer works like "Party Hat (Pink)(1994-2019)" and "Ballet Couple (2010-2019)." Installed in the ample spaces of Doha’s QM Gallery ALRIWAQ, a stone’s throw from I.M. Pei’s gorgeous Museum of Islamic Art, it’s the 66-year-old artist’s first museum...