:quality(85):upscale()/2024/09/12/810/n/3019466/fb930fa166e3325e020c13.24217184_.jpg "My Grandmother’s Love Story Shaped My Idea of Black Love")
Family PhotoFamily Photo I was 13 years old when I learned my grandmother’s lifelong love was not my grandfather. As a kid, I spent summers with my grandma in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City. I found peace in her quiet, quaint apartment. Our favorite pastime was going through her photo albums hidden … Read more
Cost of Living9:09Is it time to retire the seniors’ discount? Whether she’s attending a chamber performance or playing in one, cellist and teacher Laura Backstrom says one thing is pretty consistent — the audience “looks like a sea of white hair,” she says. In contemplating why that is, Backstrom, 60, said she initially thought it was because seniors … Read more
Sophia, a 67-year-old retired civil servant, loves welcoming her ten grandchildren on Sundays during summer for barbecues in Cornwall, England. However, only half of them are her biological grandchildren. The others are of her partner David’s. “I love them to bits and treat them like my biological grandchildren. I shower them with love and affection, … Read more
