Meet me out back

In Brookline, a nondescript backyard is transformed into an all-season retreat with a storybook set-up.

Close to the heart

Touches of a mother’s favorite color infuse a family cottage on Maine’s Penobscot Bay with memory and meaning.

Stepping up

Relocating the kitchen was key to making a modern, multilevel home on Martha’s Vineyard suit a family's lifestyle.

PERSPECTIVE

Unpaid internships, in this economy?

As a film major-turned-journalism student at Emerson College, Charlie Desjardins is used to having money problems. Thirst for experience led him to accept an unpaid internship at a radio station, for the chance at a big break in broadcasting. But are the sacrifices worth it, and why are young people being asked to bear the financial burden?

CONNECTIONS

A four-letter word starting with ‘L’

When recent Boston University graduate Karyna Cheung was just 5 years old, she remembers the other kids in class getting goodbye kisses from their moms. She wanted a kiss from her mother, too. “I’m sick,” her mom said. Cheung didn’t ask after that. Read how she came to appreciate her parents’ expressions of caring.

THE BIG DAY

She was very willing to ‘dive into the culture’

Cara Goudy and Hagop Grigorian instantly clicked when they started dating. “Everything we did together as a couple from minute one was very natural,” Hagop says. His Armenian heritage brought them even closer.

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LOVE LETTERS

Back in the day
“I can’t seem to move on from a woman I met long ago,” a writer worries. Meredith assesses the wisdom of reconnecting with past love interests.

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DINNER WITH CUPID

“We learned that we both work in the same industry.” Will this pair of educators collaborate on a lesson plan for a second date?

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