Any ideas on how not to feel bad about this? -- SAD DAD IN TEXAS DEAR DAD: Your children are not “kids.” They are adults now. If you want to see them while they are in town, you don’t need ...

An emotional night at the theater, a childhood trip to Manhattan and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Dear Diary: I was in the audience for a performance of ...

Help with a heavy door, a grocery spill on the subway and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Dear Diary: Walking into a coffee shop on Second Avenue and 63rd ...

I turned 50 in February, which has made me think quite a lot about where I am in my life. I feel sad that I haven’t been able to meet a life partner, even though I’m a pretty sociable, outgoing person ...

I turned 50 in February, which has made me think quite a lot about where I am in my life. I feel sad that I haven’t been able to meet a life partner, even though I’m a pretty sociable ...

Our only daughter and her fiancé are getting married in Denmark in a few weeks, as it’s where he’s from and where they met. She invited me and her dad, of course, but we can’t go as my ...

“The name ‘Dear Henrietta’ feels like writing to someone safe. Someone who won’t judge. Someone who won’t turn away,” one of its creators explains. Like a diary entry or a letter to an ...

MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A Milwaukee man is in jail, accused of committing horrific sex crimes against children for several years. 64-year-old David Boyd is charged with five felonies. He’s accused ...

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Joy Webb has been writing her diary for 40 years.Photograph: Viktor Pravdica/Alamy ...