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The author's basket of snail mail (Ashlie Stevens )

Forget DMs. Mail a recipe

Ashlie D. Stevens
LGBTQ party (Getty Images / Cesare Ferrari )

Queer joy never left the dance floor

Brandon Summers-Miller
Amazon messenger delivers a package (Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

All my friends are quitting Amazon

Cara Michelle Smith
100 dollar banknote with medical mask (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

Money saved our marriage from COVID

Bob Brody
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Homemade Roman dinner (Courtesy of Winston Chiang)

The art of cooking for strangers

Winston Chiang
Sourdough starter (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The slow art of nurturing food (and me)

Ashlie D. Stevens
Correspondence with cartoonist Howard Cruse (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of the author/Getty Images)

Reading my mom's mail with Howard Cruse

Glenny Brock
Friends hanging out at a music festival, at sunset (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

How to foster community in the winter

Nardos Haile
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The Chinese New Year of Snake Figurine (Getty Images/Wokephoto17)

My mom owns her year of the snake traits

Nicholas Liu
Putting 2025 through the shredder (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Christopher Ames)

Why does it feel like I'm ghosting 2025?

Nardos Haile
Couple toasting glasses of champagne (Getty Images/kieferpix)

Love in the time of delirium

Joy Peskin
The author and his family during his childhood Christmas celebrations in Baltimore (Courtesy of D. Watkins)

Moving on from a "Big Show” Christmas

D. Watkins
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Packed suitcase lying open on bed (Getty Images/Kathrin Ziegler)

Holiday travel's secret ingredient

Ashlie D. Stevens
A man waits for a train on a snow covered platform at the Garden City LIRR station on January 15, 1961. (Jim Cavanagh/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

The stick up on Christmas Eve

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Singer Justin Bieber is home for the Holidays and performs in concert for a special acoustic Christmas show at Massey Hall on December 21, 2011 in Toronto, Canada. (George Pimentel/WireImage/Getty Images)

Nostalgia for Justin Bieber's Mistletoe

Nardos Haile
Man with cracked tooth smile (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

I can’t afford to replace my veneers

Edgar Gomez
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Sabrina Carpenter and Marcello Hernandez at the Variety Power of Young Hollywood Event at the Santa Monica Proper Hotel on August 8, 2024 in Santa Monica, California. (Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images)

Short celebrities stood tall in 2024

Nardos Haile
Italy, Magenta Hospital, Emergency. (Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Moving to Italy for health care was wise

Linda Barnett
When D Watkins met Nikki Giovanni, Salon TV studios in 2017 (Peter Cooper/Salon)

How Nikki Giovanni taught me to be free

D. Watkins
Woman sitting getting a manicure (Getty Images/ABRAHAM GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ)

Is it accommodation, or is it luxury?

Paulette Perhach
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A delivery worker rides his bike on July 07, 2023 in New York City. Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats sued the City of New York on July 6th in order to block its new minimum pay rules for food delivery workers. (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress/Getty Images)

My year of ditching food delivery apps

Ashlie D. Stevens
Woman stressed out with her finances (Getty Images/Happy Kikky)

The challenge of managing ADHD and money

Paulette Perhach
Pop! Vinyl Funkos for sale during London Super Comic Con at Business Design Centre on August 25, 2017 in London, England. (Ollie Millington/Getty Images)

This Black Friday, no buying toys for me

Jay Deitcher
A woman cooking at night in the kitchen (Getty Images/Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman)

Gratitude changed how I cooked this year

Ashlie D. Stevens
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